Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their infrequent English, with its archaic vocabulary sounds like a foreign tongue. For them was reserved a later invasion and a stranger. A young man who had found the music schools of Germany and the cafes of Paris not at all to his liking was rowed out from the mainland one day, and settled down among the islanders...
...facts. The Hawaiians have a different sexual standard than we have but I found no reason for believing that the result of such a different standard predisposes the Hawaiian to violent sex crime. . . . The amount of sex-crime seemed less than reported from many localities on the mainland...
...started and stared a moment. "Land, ho!" The caked dirt cracked on the seamen's cheeks in the deep furrows of broad grins. Rotting shirts split across the shoulders as the men leaped to their feet. Not every man could have given the order to sail on to the mainland...
...Finnish mainland last week the Lapuan or Finnish Fascist revolt that petered out so dismally fortnight ago (TIME, March 14) was punctured last week by the murder of Minna Craucher. Minna Craucher, brilliant, amiable and 40, was a well-known character in Finland. She started her career as a secret agent for the early Soviet Cheka. After the War her house in Helsingfors was a salon for Finnish writers and artists. Dozens of novelists dramatized her adventures. Minna Craucher kept up her spying, was jailed three times for fraud. She knew a great deal about the Lapuan movement...
Taking a Christmas holiday in Florida in 1924 Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...