Word: straitness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vardis Fisher makes it plain that his small-town dwellers are as mixed up as any, that legends of uninhibited frontiers are just legends. One character among his many neurotics points the strait way to salvation. This is Ogden Greb, a former colleague of Psychologist Jim Jones. He goes out to the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho after Jerry turns him down. There he meets an uninhibited girl with a simple heart and a wise head. After an idyllic summer and winter with her (not as convincingly described as the mountain scenery) Greb sheds his introspections...
Last week twelve war planes from China (said by the Japanese to be Soviet planes) finally flew across the 120-mile-wide Formosa Strait, escorted by pursuit planes, and rained bombs on Japanese-owned Formosa. They flew so high that accurate bombing was impossible. From the ground the attacking craft could be seen with the naked eye only as minute specks. Eight were killed, 29 wounded. Property damage was small...
Late last week, exactly five days after Secretary of State Cordell Hull had categorically denied that there was any written or implied agreement of any sort between the British and U. S. fleets (TIME, Feb. 14), three modern U. S. cruisers, Trenton, Milwaukee and Memphis, steamed into narrow Singapore Strait and dropped anchor to the boom of welcoming salutes from British shore batteries...
Crossroads of Empire. All shipping from the Mediterranean and India to the Far East, all shipping from Britain to Australia must pass through the narrow Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years...
Waiter Marlowe found it hard to get used to the poor wages and strait-jacket discipline of English waiters, but harder to stomach the double-dyed snobbery of his fellows, the hyper-finickiness of aged guests. He was mighty glad to go to sea again. Three months after her maiden voyage he made a trip on the Queen Mary. It was his hardest job. Eighteen-hour shifts, plus the teeth-rattling vibration in crew quarters directly over the propellers, made him pine for land once more...