Word: malayan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...European overcoat, stood boggle-eyed before the hotel's rapidly twirling swing-door, was completely baffled. With Oriental arrogance he tried to pass through in the opposite direction to that in which the door was turning, got his yellow trousers caught, only managed to escape after muttering Malayan curses. More successful was his favorite wife, youthful Inche Anjong...
...these options. With his stockholders' approval he began buying 860,000 shares outright, took options on 298,000 more, all at a total cost of ?808,042. If he takes up his last option he will own some 33% and working control in ten major Malayan tin mines with an output probably equal to his Bolivian holdings...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...
...same places? Writes the erudite Montessus, whose world seismological map is speckled with nearly 160.000 quakes: "The earth's crust trembles almost only along two narrow bands which lie along great circles of the earth, the Mediterranean, or Alpino-Caucasian- Himalayan Circle; and the Circum-Pacific or Ando-Japanese-Malayan Circle." Fifty-three percent of all recorded earthquakes have occurred on the first of these, the Eurasian earthquake belt (see map, p. 23). Neatly tucked in the western end of this belt is much-troubled Naples...