Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown's team, the first he has selected, was further marked by the presence of "Stuts" Modzelowski of Rhode Island State at the other forward spot. Modzelowski is the Pawtucket whirlwind who has already smashed Angelo "Hank" Luisetti's three year scoring mark. The Rhode Islander has led his quintet to their best season in history, and is the country's highest scorer...
Discipline on the island was once so harsh that a favorite punishment for incorrigibles was to maroon them without food or water on a shelterless, rat-infested islet. Many men preferred death among the sharks in the water to fighting off the rats for days & nights...
Well fortified, with its 1,089-foot Pyramids looking far to sea, Fernando de Noronha should make a bristling outpost between South America and Dakar. On the six-by-two-mile island there is already a small airfield, built by Air France before the war. Since the war began, Brazil has been building hangars and fortifications...
Miss Fenner has no must list for child reading, observes: "When you come right down to it, there are precious few children's books that one couldn't live without." Still favorites, says she, are Tom Sawyer, Black Beauty, Pinocchio, Treasure Island, Grimms' Fairy Tales. But many modern stories are popular...
This 1938 prophecy came true last week when the "able young man," so little known that he is not listed in Who's Who in America, was called to head the fourth largest Episcopal diocese as Bishop of Long Island. His name is James Pernette De Wolfe. He is eloquent and diplomatic, and he is still only 46. Presiding Bishop Tucker is 67, and the bishops of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, the only three Episcopal dioceses larger than Long Island, are 75, 80 and 51 respectively-so young Dr. De Wolfe is likely to play an increasingly important...