Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gardner certainly should resent the imputation that he is a tax dodger . . . Those who so accuse him show a woeful lack of understanding of why Congress sanctions tax exemptions on incomes earned within the island...
...there executed one of the shrewdest tricks in recent political history. He approached the delegation from Puerto Rico, talked them into giving him their standard, and sat as their leader when the roll call began. When the clerk got to Puerto rice, "Alcalde Jaime Miguel Culeo" delivered the Island's vote for Roosevelt. It was Curley, too, who led the landslide on the fourth roll call that ended in Roosevelt's candidacy for President...
Stimulated by efferts to solve the congestion problem at the Square, work on other projects will probably be concluded early next week. Actual construction in the Square--rounding off the corners of the kiosk island and installing lights--has been finished, and only tarring and wiring jobs remain...
...answers to all twelve questions; every colonial official in the sampling flunked the test. One Frenchman thought that the Mississippi was the longest river in the French empire. Guesses on the empire's population ranged from 30 million to 300 million. A parliamentary undersecretary located the French Atlantic island of Marie Galante as "near Tahiti," which is in the Pacific...
...best Mikkola's runners have been able to do so far is beat Holy Cross in a triangular meet won by Rhode Island State. The Crimson lost its opener to Tufts...