Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rolls round ( 1634 years hence) most Anglo-Saxons may have all but forgotten him, though Germans will surely stage tremendous demonstrations for "Unser Shakespeare."† But Italy does not have to wait to celebrate the 2,000th birthday of her bard. From toe to top of the boot-shaped Peninsula, last week, prefects of provinces and podestas (mayors) proclaimed the beginning of "six months of tribute" to Virgil...
Englishmen first settled along the Ashley River in 1670, ten years later moved their government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake...
...conventionally educated New Englander the conception of a recent continental ice-sheet is familiar. This is supposed to have originated in the southwestern section of the Labrador Peninsula and to have swept south to Nova Scotia. Cape Cod, Long Island, northern Pennsylvania, and the Ohio valley; and recent studies, especially by Antevs, indicate that the front of this sheet began to rot approximately 25,000 years ago. As a natural outgrowth of this everyday conception, we are inclined to infer that all the region south of the entire Labrador Peninsula was similarly crossed and denuded by the last or Wisconsin...
...brief, we now have very conclusive evidence that the last continental ice-sheet (the Wisconsin) which originated on the Labrador Peninsula and pushed southward, did not cross the outer Gulf of St. Lawrence, the glacial ice having there, as elsewhere, a natural dislike for deep salt water. Nevertheless, in many parts of Newfoundland, Wisconsin-time saw small local sheets of ice on some mountain-slopes and on some of the open plains; and these local Wisconsin sheets did as effective work in Newfoundland as in New England...
...these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...