Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico backward and primitive. . . ." 'Sblood! The University of Mexico was founded many years before Henry Hudson ever saw Manhattan Island. There is hardly a Mexican town that does not possess some church or other building that illustrates the stately architecture of the Spanish period and back of that are the wonderful relics of Aztec and Mayan architecture which was in full flower centuries before the Spanish...
...Tarahumari Indians who live in the mountains of Sonora and Chihuahua but would you be satisfied to have American culture judged by the hillbillies of Kentucky and Tennessee or the crackers of Georgia and Florida? And I believe that even today you can find within fifty miles of Manhattan Island . . . plenty of backward and primitive people...
...customs collector in Davao, main town of Mindanao Island, reported last week that a number of unidentified vessels had anchored in Davao Gulf-unidentified because the nearest U. S. naval base with cutters or airplanes capable of investigating was on Manila Bay, 600 miles away. Wildly diverse reports filtered through to Manila, disagreeing as to the size and number of ships, never as to their nationality. This was because there are in Davao more than 20,000 prosperous Japanese, who control the Philippine hemp industry, own 63,800 acres under legal leases, even more illegally. At week...
...Harvard Flying Club, working on a contract basis with Inter-City Airlines, will send a formidable team to the fourth New England Intercollegiate Air Meet at Easthampton, Long Island on May 14 and 15, in which 20 New England colleges will be represented...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...