Word: islet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much has been written about Mont-Saint-Michel, the famous medieval abbey which covers a steep granite islet off the coast of France, and in summer is in turn covered with tourists. In Henry Adams' Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres it has inspired a literary masterpiece. But although the Abbey has long been a writers' and tourists' favorite, no one had thought to write about its guides. That oblique distinction has now been attained by Tides of Mont St.-Michel, whose author won the Goncourt Prize...
...John Steuart Curry. In brilliant, accurate reproduction were seen the famed U. S. artist's Line Storm, bad weather brooding on a wide Western landscape; Tornado Over Kansas, in which a family tumble into their storm cellar; Sanctuary, which shows farm animals huddling from a flood on an islet; and two of Mr. Curry's celebrated circus paintings: Elephants and The Flying Codonas...
...respectable middle-class home in a London suburb. From her blind and henpecked father she had inherited a secret strain that lifted her beyond her shoddy environment, made her seem like a changeling. On the annual family outing to the seaside, Shirin worshipped from afar the grim islet of Storn, was content never to have a closer view. But when Venn, Storn's spoiled young heir, rowed her over one day and presented her to his grandmother, she fell in love with the place. Years later, after a tragic but successful marriage, she met Venn again. He proposed immediately...
...some Husky dogs. To get to Melville Island the party had to skirt the westerly shore of Banks Island, the westernmost of the stupendous archipelago which clutters the Arctic north of Canada. Off Banks Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other times chewing quok (frozen meat...
...that city was quite safe. But it was learned the disease had spread from Bantayan to the neighboring islands of Cebu and Masbate despite a strict government quarantine which has stopped practically all commerce within the affected region. Especially miserable and hungry were the inhabitants of a segregated leper islet off Bantayan...