Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of December 6 numerous officers of the Army and Navy attended social functions at various points on the Island of Oahu. The Commanding General and the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet were both guests at dinners away from their posts but returned to their quarters at an early hour. . . . There is no evidence of excessive drinking by any officer of either service...
After silver-haired, handsome Rexford Guy Tugwell took office in Puerto Rico last September as Governor, little was heard of him until last week, when from that much-experimented-on island came roars and rumors of roars...
...seven weeks of fighting, starting from his own goal on the Thailand-Malaya border, he had moved 360 miles south through the steaming jungle. His weapons had been end runs, forward passes and quarterback sneaks. Now the time had come for power bucks, because pay dirt-the precious island of Singapore...
Like Hong Kong and Manila before it, Singapore awaited its fate. Its tree-covered oval island, 27 miles long and 14 miles wide, is separated from the giraffe-like neck of the Malay Peninsula and the oncoming Jap by the mile-wide Strait of Johore. Around the big island on the sea side are scores of tiny islands, on most of which lie camouflaged coastal artillery positions...
Maintaining that Providence, Rhode Island, has violated the provisions of the will of the late Charles H. Smith, wealthy Providence philanthropist, the University filed suit last Thursday against the city to establish its claim to the estate, which at the time of Smith's death amounted to over $1,000,000 and now has an annual income...