Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After repairs, the Idle Hour touched at Sydney, New Guinea, Bali, Singapore, carrying an occasional venturesome paying passenger. At Colombo, Ceylon, Timi caught malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight...
...Dictator Kamal Ataturk first made up his mind that the 80,000 Turks of the Sanjak of Alexandretta of French-mandated Syria would suffer unduly under independent Syrian rule, he began his campaign for an autonomous Sanjak by calling the region "Hatay." While sanjak is an old Turkish word meaning district, Hatay was the still older name of the old Hittite Empire. Early this summer the Sanjak became autonomous under joint French and Turkish protection. Last week the Turkish majority in the Sanjak's Legislature also became Hittite-conscious. They formally changed the name of the Sanjak of Alexandretta...
...Swanee River (properly called Old Folks at Home), had never seen Florida's Suwannee River about which his song was written, got the misspelled name from an old map. Once the song was written it was impossible to correct the spelling, because the tune calls for a word of two syllables, and the real Suwannee has three...
Died. Captain Samuel A'Court Ashe. 97, onetime (1879-94) publisher of the Raleigh News and Observer (now owned by Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels), Confederate veteran who always frowned when the word "Yankee" was used in his presence; of old age; in Raleigh...
...Fuller word signifying "dynamic" plus "maximum service...