Word: insularly
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...island is not "swampish"; it is dry, in fact, too dry for its own good. For years both the Insular and Federal Governments have been carrying out a campaign against malaria by draining and filling in the few swamps, and except in a few places malaria has been greatly controlled. Yellow fever has never been prevalent...
...bunk, no journalese, no sentimentality. Of the embattled English he remarked: "Often they are insular, but their determination must be recorded." When Dorothy Thompson was telling the British that the poets of the world were on their side, he spoke for the sweating people who doubted the poets' effectiveness. At a time when the official British were still egg-walking on the subject of the U.S., he reported the truth in plain words: "They want us in this...
...have read your newsmagazine for many years with pleasure and profit to myself and quoted it most annoyingly to my Insular friends...
...program dwells on the doings of one Captain Craig McKenzie. Anxious to save civilization from its doom, the Captain operates an insular Shangri-La in the South Pacific...
...orchestra which gives cheap, workmanlike weekly concerts) in the first of two engagements. In less than a year, Sir Thomas has traveled 60,000 miles, from England via the U.S. to Australia and back, stepping from toe to toe along the way. (California is still atremble over his insular low-rating of the movies...