Word: islandness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lastly the Queen spoke with emotion, nay indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists...
...King, Canada's Minister of Health, last week pondered a compound problem of propriety, tolerance and human rights. The Provincial authorities of British Columbia had laid the problem be- fore him: they proposed that Canada exile or isolate several thousand of Canada's inhabitants upon lonely D'Arcy Island, off the southernmost tip of Vancouver Island...
...Doukhobors are moved to an island, it will be a continuation of a long history of forced migrations. By Alexander I (1777-1825) the sect was rounded up from various parts of Russia and colonized in Tauris. In 1840 and 1850, the Doukhobors refused to participate in military service, were sent by Nicholas I from Tauris to Transcaucasia. In 1895 Nicholas II banished over 4,000 of them to Georgia. Three years later a party of over 2,000 emigrated to Cyprus, stayed there a year, then joined some 4,000 who had gone to Canada...
...near Chicago where women's par is 80 strokes. Four times par was broken and once it was equalled, but the final scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent 83 and 81 comfortable leeway under Virginia Van Wie of Chicago who managed to rush up from ninth to second place by finishing with two 79's. Other competitors included the Midwest...
...land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero Club, ran out of gas. The best landing in his judgment was the cushiony top of a Mrs. Mary Johnson's 300-year-old oak tree. He alighted. Killed: two Johnson hens, by fright...