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Word: islanded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Pearl Harbor again last week, Dixon told reporters: "I'm going back to that island some day. It's better than anything Dorothy Lamour ever dreamed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Dixon was sure then that Aldrich "had gone." But ahead of them white rollers were breaking on an island beach and behind that there were rows of palms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: AT SEA: They Shot an Albatross | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Following Portuguese, Dutch and British pioneers, the French first got a foothold on the island at the end of the 17th Century. In the 19th Century they started developing one of the world's best natural harbors, Diégo-Suarez on Madagascar's northeast coast. Diégo-Suarez is defended by ancient 75 and 90 mm. guns; on the whole island there are only 5,000 troops, French and Senegalese, with a sprinkling of natives. Of the 40,000 whites, most of the small fry are anti-Vichy; most of the Government, Army and other important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADAGASCAR: Aepyornis Island | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Mickey claimed that numbers of the roving fortune tellers were ensconced on Main and Herald Streets in West Cambridge, and that they had arrived from Rhode Island and points south about a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Demands Eviction Of Cambridge Gypsy Tenants | 3/17/1942 | See Source »

Reza Pahlavi, ex-Shah of Iran, who has been confined by the British on the island of Mauritius, got permission to go to Canada with his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dumb Friends | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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