Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clerk Pratt eventually joined up in Standard Oil with onetime bookkeeper Rockefeller. When he died in 1891, Pratt was Brooklyn's richest citizen, a solid, sharp-faced, goateed, philanthropic Baptist. To his six sons and two daughters he left an 800-acre estate at Glen Cove, on Long Island's North Shore, where they built themselves manor houses...
...Glen Cove the Russians will have even less contact with the natives. Last fall they leased the late J. P. Morgan's $2,500,000 East Island estate, which adjoins Killenworth. Local folk said they saw as little of the exclusive comrades as of the haughty Morgans and Pratts...
Gauguin had gone far beyond the hurried lyricism of Claude Monet (whom he once collected), but he seldom banged the brasses like his fellow pioneer Van Gogh. His island landscapes had a muted harmony which reminded U.S. eyes of moist June afternoons seen through Polaroid sunglasses. The honey-colored people who lived in them possessed the gentle strength and warmth of his models, the wooden stiffness and empty-eyed thoughtfulness of their idols. Each painting was an elaborate, somber tapestry of colors that no other artist had yet dared to weave...
Beneath the black waters of the Aleutian Deep the earth moved. Some 15,000 feet down and 70 miles southeast of Unimak Island (see cut), nature was building a mountain which living men might never see. But the secondary results were visible enough: 1) quivering squiggles which are the seismographic record of earthquake violence; 2) a series of tsunami* ringing out from the earthquake center, carrying death & destruction to Hawaii, spreading alarm across the Pacific...
...speed is reduced by friction, the water piles up into steep, precipitous peaks. Last week in Hawaii eyewitnesses guessed the tsunami ran as high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...