Word: islands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Slav fishermen and Eskimos, residents on a remote island in Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, learned last week with intense surprise from the first vessel that has visited them in 15 years that Russia, Germany, Austria, Turkey are no longer empires. When the ship's captain attempted to put to sea before all these changes had been satisfactorily explained, the Slavic peasants forcibly restrained him another day, some contending to the last that his answers to their questions proved him a liar or one gone...
...Henry H. Rogers, Manhattan sportsman-oilman, father of famed Millicent Rogers, Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren...
...rediscovered Slav island in Bering Strait see Russia...
...East Africa. During his stay there he contracted malaria and found after the war that he was unable to live in England because of the climate and unable to continue his medical work because it was too great a strain. As a consequence of this he retired to the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples in 1918, where he has been studying and writing since...
...white trader or explorer. Furthermore the native's absolute disregard of social status based on property ownership and his perfect satisfaction with his lot makes him impossible as a laborer. In this respect the native of New Guinea furnishes a strong contrast to his industrious neighbor on the Island of Java...