Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within a few hours fishermen and country folk, from the 40-mile stretch between Tancook Island and Herring Cove, flocked on foot or in dories, motor boats and schooners to the scene of one of the biggest salvage "takes" in Nova Scotia's wreck-strewn history...
...Island by Island. MacArthur was not asking for any kindly old man when, in February 1943, he requested the War Department to send Krueger to Australia to head the Sixth Army. Headquarters in a Brisbane hotel was too plush for Krueger: he moved to a camp 16 miles out of town and lived in a hut. Later he was to live in many a hut, from Milne Bay to Good-enough Island, New Britain, Hollandia and Leyte...
Lieut. General Sir William George Shedden ("Old Dob Dob") Dobbie, 66, pious, pink-cheeked, former Governor and Commander of the bomb-torn Island of Malta (until he retired in 1942), arrived in the U.S. to begin a series of lectures sponsored by the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Crusading Puritan Dobbie hopes to cement U.S.-British relations...
When he came upon the Great Falls of the Missouri River in 1805, Captain Meriwether Lewis found himself in the heart of the northwestern wilderness. On an island below the Falls, on a high cottonwood tree, he saw a lone eagle's nest. Lewis went on alone, toward the Sun River, and shot a buffalo. Then he saw a bear creeping toward him, ran to the river and jumped in. When he climbed out, he met an unknown brown- & -yellow animal ready to spring upon him. He shot at it. Then he was charged by three buffalo bulls...
...museum last week issued a shrewdly challenging invitation to the public: "It has always been taken for granted that the English were the great masters, and the Americans just copied them. Go to the Museum and see if this is true." The art museum was the Rhode Island School of Design's in Providence. On its walls were hung 102 carefully chosen British and American paintings of the 1670-to-1825 period. The provocative question they raised: did colonial New England have a genuine native art, or did early American painters merely turn out second-rate English imitations...