Word: seacoast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SELECTED POEMS-Wilbert Snow-Edwin Valentine Mitchell ($2.50). Serious verse on many aspects of life along the Maine seacoast...
...wolves, had been punctured by the proboscises of poisonous flies and mosquitoes, had been stripped of valuables by Banda Negroes and finally had been found by a Belgian search pilot, shipped down the Congo River to French Equatorial Africa's capital, Brazzaville, thence by rail to the seacoast, thence by sea to France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit...
...claim that the appearance of openness and sincerity in the statement is but an indication of agreements of a nature not fitted for public consumption, but there is little reason to believe that the British have Machiavellian designs. Unquestionably they are much disturbed over the potential dangers to their seacoast towns and cities in the rapid increase in the number of airplanes being constructed in Germany, and their plan for a regional pact for air defense is designed to meet this danger. But in this era of nationalism, no nation can be blamed for a close regard...
Motoring in a Ford through Venezuela from the seacoast to the Andes, Alfred Kidder, II '33 has discovered valuable archeological material in that hitherto untouched region...
...backward crown colony is British Guiana, sprawling just east of Venezuela over an area of South American forests, rivers and seacoast almost as large as Great Britain. But in 1856 British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp...