Word: papua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...modern civilization. To some philosophers it plainly represents "an interest in, and some ability to manipulate, abstract ideas." Peers of the realm tend instinctively to see culture as "urbanity and civility"; the grubbing archeologist sees it in the shape of the potsherds and tibias that he digs up in Papua and the Tigris valley...
Secretary Goodall, a Congregationalist, was turned down for missionary work because of poor health. So he became the London Missionary Society's secretary for India, the South Seas and Papua. He likes to putter in his garden, play the violin, go to the theater with his wife, a doctor. He reads Anthony Trollope, Charles Lamb, John Donne, can take Hemingway "in small doses." On his office wall is a photograph of himself taken in India. It shows Mr. Goodall in shorts, squatting before a bearded Indian Christian. Says the International Missionary Council's new secretary: "That is symbolic...
...midafternoon of June 29, nearly everything was ready-at the American bases in the Solomons, and at the bases along the northeastern shore of Papua. Said one commanding general to his men: "You've got what it takes. The path won't be easy, but your guts will make you carry...
...Islands. On the same night a little fleet of landing boats moved out from Papua, toward the Trobriand and Woodlark Islands. Lieut. Commander John D. Bulkeley, the famed "expendable" who brought General MacArthur out of Corregidor, commanded an escorting section of PT boats. Overhead low-flying P-38s also guarded the convoy...
...thatched bamboo hut on Papua recently the Allied Papuan Medical Society held its fifth monthly meeting. The assembled U.S., British and Australian doctors listened to learned papers by some of their company on "Aviation Medicine in Combat," "Moral Fiber," "Fear," "The Fighter Pilot" and "Medical Air Service." There were exhibits on aviation medicine and the life cycle of local malaria-bearing mosquitoes, including a tank of live fish in the act of eating mosquito larvae. The doctors, said the report to the A.M.A. Journal, saw "a complete display of Japanese surgical instruments and appliances with many of their drugs...