Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Warren Ethnological Gallery of the Peabody Museum was opened to the public on Thursday. It contains a very valuable collection of clothing, ornaments, spears, models of boats and similar objects collected in Australia, Polynesia, Hawaii, Samoa, the Fiji Islands, and the Northwest coast of America. The collection is now being labelled...
...Pacific. Naturally the group of interested nations will not be pleased to see some one of the group in exclusive control of the common station. Russia, our sworn friend of the past, has for the first time begun to chafe. Germany has mainfested distrust of our chief justice in Samoa...
...instances of recent unavoidable difficulties, Conroy mentioned Samoa, Cuba, Hawall and Venezuela. He closed by declaring most emphatically that the United States is no longer isolated from the rest of the world, but is constantly in more or less danger...
...charming; and the governing bent of Arnold's mind is characteristically displayed. The letters of Flaubert note in the main artistic procedure and the painful battle of the artist with the elements of his craft. Stevenson also is revealed as a laboring artist, but the vivid epistles written from Samoa to Mr. Sidney Colvin exhibit varied and significant traits of the heroic yet very human man as well as of the brilliant writer waging an unequal warfare with life...
...necessary for purposes of defense. - (a) Extensive seaboard 16,000 miles and Alaska. - (b) Increasing commerce: U. S. Report on Commerce, 1894. - (c) Inadequate coast defenses: Gualtrough. - (d) International complications can not be avoided. - (1) Chile. - (2) Samoa. - (3) Hawaii. - (4) Nicaragua. - (5) Great Britain as to Behring Sea. - (6) Spain as to Cuba. - (e) Monroe Doctrine should be enforced...