Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret to advise, however, that although we still hold the deep well record, they found oil the other day in one of the Texas fields some 90 feet deeper than our producing horizon in K.C.L. A2, which is, as you will recall, between 13,085 and 13,170 feet...
However, K.C.L. A-2 at 15,004 feet is still the deepest hole in the ground...
...still-undeclared war in China, which Japan once confidently predicted would be a matter of a few months, this week entered its second year, still far from her loudly-announced goal of overthrowing Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government...
...story centres on the relation between whites and natives. In an isolated valley in Tahiti, 16 years before the story opens, a young English widow, mother of a four-year-old son, dies while giving birth to a girl. A native woman bears a still-born child at the same time, steals the white girl, whom she calls Naia, raises her as her own. From England, when Naia is 16, comes her real brother and his friend, tall, grey-eyed Alan Hardie, a promising young scientist, son of a stiff-necked general. Hardened Melodramatists Nordhoff & Hall are careful to keep...
Although The Dark River has the conventional writing and characterizations of melodramatic fiction and introduces an unusual number of picturesque poses (silhouettes atop sea cliffs, arm-around-tree pensiveness), it still rates above the average South Sea island romance. This may be credited, not to its authentic setting-most popular fiction nowadays has that-but rather to its authors' genuine sympathy for native Tahitians...