Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the Pacific Ocean the sea bed moved. Came a great rumble. A violent displacement sent huge rushes of water to the surface and an enormous wall of green sea arose from the depths to career with devastating force upon the Japanese island of Kiushiu, south of the main island of Hondo, upon which is situate Tokyo, capital city...
...same time an ugly storm gathered its forces of wind and rain, and, shrieking, screaming behind the white-topped sea mountains, lashed itself into tortuous fury and vent its wrath on this same island of Kiushiu...
...their typewriters with long, nervous fingers the snippy opinion that it was "distinctly of the old school." On reading this, Mr. Smith saw red, turned radical with a vengeance. He daubed upon a canvas the weirdest monstrosity conceivable to his infuriated imagination. It showed a crazily proportioned South Sea Island female, mouth crammed to oozing with banana, holding aloft a half-devoured piece of the fruit. In the background gaped a skull. Having splotched every color on the palette over his flamboyant picture, he entitled it, "Yes We Have No Bananas," stuck it in front of his fireplace. "That," said...
...swimmers, most of them naked, all of them thick with grease, plunged into Lake Ontario, in a 21-mi. race from Toronto, over a triangular course, to Toronto. They thrashed, kicked and ploughed the water. Soon the strongest left the milling mob and George Young, hero of the Catalina Island swim, was leading the marathon. Accidents happened, men and women were doubled up with cramps, weaklings withdrew from the chill waters; the drowning were saved in the early 'miles, and the field thinned. After four miles a baker, kneading the water as the kneaded dough in his little bake shop...
Floods came, winds blew and beat upon International Field at Meadowbrook Club, Long Island. Experts prodded the turf, found it saturated, slippery. The first U. S.-England polo match, scheduled for Sept. 5 (TIME, Sept. 5), was put off until Sept...