Word: malays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus ends the play. In the intervening hour or so is spun the bitter story of a planter's lonely wife on the Malay Peninsula. There is no moral pointed, except perhaps that love sometimes dies young and for no reason. Leslie Crosbie was not a wholly vicious woman. Throughout the story, which ends in her confession that she shot her lover Hammond because he was living with a Chinese woman, she strangles truth lest her husband find out her guilt and the discovery break his heart. After the first few moments her every move is to spare from...
...Since the extinction of the Australian natives, Dutch New Guinea very probably is able to boast, the most primitive peoples still in existence", declared P. T. L. Putnam '25, who has recently returned from a sojourn in the Malay Archipelago where he was doing anthropological research under the auspices of the Peabody Museum. "New Guinea," Putnam went on to say, "In its interior is a country even less known than the interior of Africa and in its mystery rivaled only by the wilds of Brazil...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...
...Curle, a close reined of Conrad, has travelled extensively in South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Near East, Burma, the Malay States, and in other parts of the world...
...Stevenson Plan went into effect in Malay States, Straits Settlement and Ceylon on Nov. 1, 1919. Rubber had sold as low as 11½c a pound in 1921, well below production costs. The Plan immediately restricted output to 60% of tree capacity. Every three months restrictions were to be tightened or relaxed according to prices at the London rubber market. Thus production went down to 50% Nov., 1924, through Jan., 1925. Last February all restrictions were lifted. Rubber prices were amply high...