Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Across the wasteland of Alaska there is now on trek a herd of 3,000 reindeer, mostly females, which is being driven from Nobuktulik to the Kittigazuit Peninsula in the Canadian Northwest. The herd started in November and is due in the spring of 1931, traveling via the Colville Basin (southeast of Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska) where it will spend the fawning season and summer, giving the fawns time to become strong enough to travel. When the herd arrives at Kittigazuit what is left of it will be bought by the Canadian Government which has become interested...
Professor Kirsopp Lake and Associate Professor R. P. Blake, '09. Director of the Harvard University Library, are leading the archaeological expedition which is going out from Harvard this week to continue researches in the Sinai peninsula. Professor R. F. Butin of the Catholic University of America will be a member of the expedition, which is being carried out under the joint auspices of the two Universities...
They will carry on further researches in the area where proto-Semitic inscriptions were recovered by Professors Lake and Blake in 1927. The inscriptions were found on the platean of Serabit-el-Khadem in the Sinal peninsula, 60 miles southeast of Suez...
Snugly tidied for the winter last week were the fishing villages along the Burin peninsula, which projects southward from southern Newfoundland. Provender was in the butteries, coal within the bins. Warehouses held stacks of dried and salted codfish, the season's catch, ready to be shipped for profit-to buy calico, yarn, sweaters, boots. Men prophesied a serene winter. Then the fish-giving sea howled unwontedly. A great swoop of water slapped against the shore. It fell back, slapped up again and again. Rent, twisted, smashed, into flotsam went wharves, stores, homes, people. Devastation: more than a score killed...
...boon to Newport-bound socialites is the new bridge. Long have they had to cross to the southern peninsula on a slow, chugging ferry, instituted in 1680, onetime carrier of Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau...