Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nevertheless, Fred Gruin reports from Nanking that he has the name of a veteran missionary in Kuling, China's cool summer capital, who may be able to find a cottage for him there, and Shanghai Bureau Chief William Gray has his eye on a small hotel on an island off Wusih in Lake Tai Hu, northwest of Shanghai. "Wusih," says Gray, "is a sort of Chinese Venice, where you travel mostly by motor houseboat, a top-heavy but pleasant craft with attendants who serve tea and Chinese chow at thoughtful intervals...
...Moscow had agreed on a trade in snakes; and a social tidbit for the gossip column: a cow of Victoria, Australia, whose husband had lived in Bucks County, Pa. since 1939, gave birth to a calf. It was all legitimate, however. The father, Imperial Regal Heritage of the Jersey Island Jerseys (he had left home on the last ship before the Nazis moved in), achieved his parenthood through artificial insemination over the longest distance yet recorded. Sealed in two thermos jugs and packed in ice, the Imperial Regal sperm (diluted to serve 100 cows) took the long way round...
...discovery was made by Kenneth V. Thimann, Professor of plant physiology, after months of experimentation at the Atkins Institute in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The weed apparently eliminated by the experiment is the Aroma marabu weed, which had overgrown large acreages of sugar land on the island and is also a problem to cattle raisers in the region...
Across 6,000 miles, Joe flashed the message. The anxious group on the atoll carefully followed the doctor's orders. A nurse on the island, Mrs. Robert Steed, though eight months pregnant, turned out to give the plasma transfusion. By that time, Radio-Ham Barnes was talking to surgeons attached to Hawaii's Hickam Field, getting more instructions. When a rescue plane and an Army surgeon arrived five hours later from Hickam, they found that Radioman Buster Bailey was still holding on. By nightfall he was resting comfortably in a Hawaiian hospital...
Auden is settled for the summer on Fire Island-off New York's Long Island -where he owns a tar-paper-covered shack near a sand dune. On one wall of his littered study Poet Auden keeps an immense map of Alston moor in Cumberland below the Roman Wall, his childhood country, whose limestone quarries, fells and valleys-and mining machinery -have persisted as bleakly beautiful imagery in all his work...