Word: polynesia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When he does sail again he will go to live and die in Polynesia, "most perfect country...
...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...
...Hall is both a former ace of the Lafayette Escadrillc and a journalist, and as a result starts two laps behind the field. He never makes them up. He travels from the little Iowa village of his birth to a prison camp in Germany, to forgotten islands of Polynesia, to Iceland and back to Tahiti. His first chapter set in the Iowa village and describing the various soldiers of fortune passing through on the sleepers gives promise, but for the rest Hall is too self-conscious, inadequate, and careless...
Prom the Rev. Dr. Turner's Nineteen Years in Polynesia we learn that "Hands are the choice bits-sacred to the priests," and that the flesh of white men was considered inferior to that of black, being of too salty a taste...
...Yucatan, Dr. Herbert J. Spinden of the Peabody Museum (Boston) and Gregory Mason reached the definite conclusion that the Mayas originated in the Mexican highlands and in Guatemala, not being immigrants from Africa or Polynesia as has sometimes been suggested...