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Word: islanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hawaiian reunion as well as some last times will be provided in the sprints, as Crimson's Captain John Watkins and his brother Norm will be struggling to say Aloha in these quickies to sailors Charlie Dwight and Bill Kanakanui. Most appropriately the latter's name is the island equivalent of big medicine...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Middie Team To Face Ulen Mermen Here | 2/21/1947 | See Source »

Heavyweight Pete Fuller, who easily disposed of his Princeton opponent, Alex Royd, Saturday by pinning him in both the second and third periods, will be at his usual spot, facing one of the apparently weaker Bruin classes. Dan Ray will probably have the toughest Bruin, a former Rhode Island State interscholastic champ, pitted against him, while at 136 Frank Trinkle of the Crimson is scheduled to run into a good wrestler in the person of Jack Micheal, a former Hill School captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestling Teams Fight with Bears At Brown Tonight | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

After listening to all this, the House Committee charged him with conspiracy to overthrow the Government, contempt of Congress, perjury, income-tax evasion and passport falsification. It ordered him sent back to Ellis Island and asked the Justice Department to act in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Man from Moscow | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Progress Report, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Channel Island, not the Hague-famed U.S. state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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