Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Hepburn's friendly words to the press and populace soon deflated the island's fear of an emergency involving Puerto Rico, but left them convinced that the base was as good as built, at an estimated expenditure of some $4,000,000. Hard fact was that the visitors could not make the decision if they wanted to. That will be up to the U. S. Navy's General Board, the Secretary of the Navy, and Congress. Having persuaded Congress that more bases are needed in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Pacific, the navy is inspecting all available...
Thomas Pierce Barnefield; Pawtucket, Rhodo Island--Pawtucket High School...
...British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Cambridge, England, from August 17 to 23, Dr. Shapley presented a second paper on "The Nature of the Inner Metagalaxy." In this talk he reported the discovery by Harvard of a conspicuous irregularity in the distribution of galaxies, or island universes, in the southern sky. This discovery, he said, is of fundamental importance, for, although it does not prove the theory that the universe is expanding, it eliminates conflicting theories based on counts of galaxies...
Died. Henry W. Gaines, 82, "dean of Long Island commuters," who in 58 years had traveled more than 1,000,000 miles on the Long Island Railroad; in Huntington...
...regions in the U. S. have been as carefully described as the narrow rectangle of Chicago streets that lies between 25th and 71st Streets, between Wabash and Stony Island Avenues. Born there 34 years ago, James Thomas Farrell has made it the scene of five long novels, including his 1,108-page trilogy, Studs Lonigan, has harped steadily on the fights and brawls that have raged on its vacant lots, in its schoolyards and alleys, in its schoolrooms, poolrooms, bedrooms and parlors...