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Word: selandia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...raspberry known locally as impulsive red. Instead of news stories they carried long columns of verse. At 5 a.m., a navy radio station began to broadcast the proceedings. It was a most discreet broadcast, failing to mention that when the King was transferring by PT boat from the liner Selandia to the Sri Ayuthia, he did a good-humored dance to the buffeting of the waves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Homing Bird | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

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