Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the three powers stood firm, not only at Shanghai but also at the little International Settlement on the Island of Kulangsu, near Amoy. There the Japanese landed 126 marines. Soon Vice Admiral Sir Percy Noble, Commander-in-Chief of the British China Fleet, served the Japanese with an ultimatum to clear out. Sir Percy was not speaking for Britain alone but for France and, more important, for the U. S. Throughout the war the Japanese have been considerably more respectful to the U. S., which is a big nation with a big fleet more free to prowl...
...weak-mouthed weakfish (world's record: 17 Ibs. 3 oz.), least sporty of game fish. From the first of May, when the annual weakfish run starts off Cape Hatteras, they attract thousands of anglers along the saltwater bays, inlets and tidal rivers from Delaware to Long Island. Best weak, fishing spot is Peconic Bay on eastern Long Island where, during June, boats will be as numerous as canoes on a summer-camp lake...
...Hoynton Polly Blodgett, Boston Leon H. Brachman Marcia Wilson, Dorchester Charles Breunig Mary Lewis, Indianapolis Jack E. Bronston Georgia Clark, Rochester, N. H. Walter D. Brooks Anne Keith, Campello Robert P. Brundage Harriet Leatherbee, West Newton Joseph P. Burke Ann Corcoren, Cambridge Henry D. Burnham Elvine Richard, Hewlit, Long Island Chadwick R. Byer Shirley Saxe, Brookline Winthrop L. Carter Diana Fraser, Cambridge William E. Chambers Mitzl Berardi, Cleveland Frederick H. Chatfield Nancy Vogel, Brookline Robert Franklin Chick Dorothy Folk, Brooklyn Edward S. Cholmeley-Jones Betsey Saches, Chestnut Hill Alphonse F. Cifrino Rosamonde Piotti, Dorchester Jesse F. Cleveland Patricia Bammann, Norfolk...
...first time since 1877 Harvard will have no representatives in the I.C.4A track meet to be held on Randall's Island next Friday and Saturday, it was learned yesterday...
...through one of the cinematic masterpieces of out time, "The Edge of the World." That music sets the tempo, and in time with its thunderous beat marches a story of decaying society that is as grim as it is magnificent. That little group of people, on a desolate little island north of Scotland, fighting a losing battle against nature, themselves, and the breakdown of the immemorial traditions, becomes a living cell symbolic of a larger organism...