Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tractors, monthly allowances of $15 for from three months to a year, cash grants up to $575 for building a house and stable, credits for all land cleared and ploughed. In some parts of the province this policy has paid off, e.g., the Rimouski diocese of the Gaspé Peninsula, where 33 new parishes averaging 150 to 200 families have been established in the past 15 years. But no one realized better than the Church itself that to the young men of today the virtues of pioneering sounded bleak and harsh beside the siren voice of the cities...
Since there is no positive evidence that boats were known to Stone Age inhabitants of western Europe and Africa, such a relationship would support the theory that the lberian peninsula and Africa were once connected by a laud bridge...
...deer season was at its height, hunters shot at everything that moved, including each other. In five days, 14 hunters were dead - five by gunshot wounds, nine by heart attack - and many another woods man was grazed by bullets. William Brown spent eight days in Michigan's upper peninsula, trying to get a shot at a deer; on the way home, he ran down and killed an eight-point buck with his automobile. At Boulder Junction, Wis., a rifle bullet crashed through a school bus and the trigger-happy hunter explained that he thought the white lettering...
...seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade of the Malay peninsula and establish her naval power athwart the route to China...
...Lake Tai Hu was not duplicated everywhere in China-nor was the engine the only Western device to be scrapped. In Nanking, qualified observers agreed that the last forlorn hope for successful U.S. mediation between Nationalist and Communist forces had all but vanished. On the northern shore of Shantung peninsula, rifles sang and mortars whispered as Nationalist troops besieged Communist Chefoo. Across the Yellow Sea in Manchuria, Lieut. General Tu Li-ming's Government armies were clearing out the peninsula south of captured Antung, preparing for the climactic drive on Harbin (see map). In that target city...