Word: selkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Literary Material. It was on Más-a-Tierra (Landward), largest (58 square miles) of the Juan Fernández Islands, that a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk was put ashore in 1704 after a row with his captain. There he lived in rugged solitude for four years. When he got back to England, Selkirk published a personal journal of his adventures, and from his account Daniel Defoe wrote The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...
Today, on the side of the hill that was Selkirk's lookout is a bronze tablet, put up in his memory by the captain and officers of a British ship which visited the island in 1868. Hard by the beach where Crusoe found Friday is now a fishing village, San Juan Bautista. In it live most of the 560 Juan Fernándians. Sixty live on the smaller island of Más-a-Fuera, 90 miles farther out. Santa Clara, third of the group, is uninhabited...
...Yankees slammed out 182 home runs during the 1936 season, it looked as if they had a record that would stay on the books for a long time. That year, the Yankees' "Murderers' Row"† included Lou Gehrig (49 homers), Joe DiMaggio (29), Bill Dickey (22), George Selkirk (18), Frankie Crosetti (15). This year, on the other side of the Harlem River, New York Giant fans are being treated to a show of fence-busting that is almost certain to overturn the Yankees' record. By this week, the Giants had banged out 159 home runs...
Tentative plans for next summer include trips by club members to the 19,000-foot Mt. Huagoruncho in the Peruvian Andes, and to the Selkirk Mountains in British Columbia. HMC members conducted a two-week reconnaissance trip of Mt. Huagoruncho in 1941, and they are looking forward to scaling it this time, Putnam says...
...Manitoba Hard." Manitobans pricked up their ears. Ever since Lord Selkirk and his band of British crofters had sailed across Hudson Bay in 1814 and then portaged to the rich Red River Valley, agriculture has been king in Manitoba. The valley's rich, black velvety soil had been the magnet which drew colonists. They hugged the area close to the U.S. border, grew Canada's best grade wheat (No. 1 Manitoba Northern Hard) and other grains in enormous quantities...