Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the fat Hearst retainer. From many another client rich Jack Neylan is making all the money he needs to provide for all he cares about - his wife and daughter, Jane Frances (now a senior at University of California), and his handsome estate at Woodside on the San Mateo Peninsula, for which he wrote a check for $160,000 five years...
From a utilitarian standpoint alone this policy is wise, since the University achieves immeasurable prestige from these quiet triumphs. A discovery such as that made recently by Professor Lake's expedition in the Sinai Peninsula, when the tomb of the Egyptian goddess Hathor was unearthed, brings to an institution of learning the credit to which its efforts entitle it. Present day science has reached the stage where much of the most vital work is done far from the cloistered museums and libraries. Like bread cast upon the waters, the support given Harvard to its globetrotting expeditions is repaying the University...
...recently as 1821 Greece was a servile Turkish province. It was largely with Russian backing that a few Greek Christians won freedom for the barren lower tip of the Greek peninsula. For the rest of the 19th Century the Greeks acquired a shameful record of defeat in battle. They acquired more territory only through the benevolence of the Great Powers, chiefly Britain. Then green currants from the Ionian Islands were the main economic support of the dismal little nation...
...importation of 1,400,000 indigent Greeks from Turkey and Bulgaria in exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally, in 1928, Venizelos cashed in his popularity for one more Premiership, made alliances with Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal, reasserted the Mediterranean policy of a true island Greek...
...life Venizelos had worked to consolidate Greeks in Greece. The desperate adventure this month of his last revolution between the peninsula on the one hand, the islands and Macedonia on the other, marked the first time he had ever fought to split Greeks. And for the first time he failed. Once more ''the shivering of the dying and the malediction of man'' fell upon Venizelos. The 71-year-old man, who fled last week to a swank Italian hotel in Rhodes with a private beach, groaned, "I am tired by the hardships and disappointments...