Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...puzzle belonging to science were reported solved last week. Manna, gift of Heaven upon which the Israelites fed on their exodus from Egypt to Canaan, was but the excretion from the bodies of certain coccids, a kind of plant lice which infested the tamarisk shrubs of the Sinai Peninsula...
...month's exile, comes news of a break in relations between Albania and Jugo-Slavia forced on by the latter because of the arrest of a Serb interpreter. The flimsy pretext discloses the immovability of Jugo-Slav opposition to Italy in Albania or anywhere else in the Balkan peninsula. There will be no war this time certainly, but unless imperialistic policy changes its color in the near future there will come sooner or later an explosion. Near Eastern rivalries no more intense set the world aflame on the murder of an Archduke. Interpreters are only a little less serviceable...
...Francisco, peninsula port city, the Emporium Corp. is the largest retail concern; in Oakland, industrial city, railway terminal across San Francisco Bay, H. C. Capwell Co. is the leading department store. Last week they merged, will dominate trade among the Bay cities...
...famed Japanese seismologist Dr. Shinichi Kunitomi fairly beamed upon correspondents as he said: "We were very fortunate this time. The amplitude of the quake was such as to indicate a national catastrophe, but fortunately the centre of the earth movement was ten miles out at sea, off the Tango peninsula. That alone accounts for the present minimum of disaster...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...