Word: malays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japan, the Malay Archipelago and South America have geyser regions. But they do not compare in number or size to those of Iceland, New Zealand or Yellowstone. Yellowstone's are the biggest and best to look...
...Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each Rotary club admits only one representative of each profession; and whereas in India and the Malay Peninsula the British lawyer and native lawyer practice in different courts; shall their practices be designated as distinct professions, a member of each admitted...
...from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
Britain's Malay Might. At Singapore, most potent war base in the far east, the clanking, 26-year-old Pittsburgh was sirened and saluted by smart British fighting craft. If, during his three days in Singapore, Mr. Davis studied British colonial methods in the Malay States, he doubtless learned first this paramount fact...
...Soundings Tomlinson writes on: skiing in Switzerland, a launch trip in the Malay Archipelago, Sea-Dog Frobisher and contemporary worthies, an overnight voyage in a wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...