Word: island
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...verdure was burnt and hideous. Pilot Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There was no possible escape. Even in the plane the heat was almost unbearable...
Besides Big Business, the Archbishop of Manila is charged with looking to the education of his island flock. Principal institution is the Atemeo de Manila, where such political leaders as Manuel Quezon have been educated, where the big, florid, blue-eyed figure of Archbishop O'Doherty is a familiar sight either walking in church-stateliness or riding in one of the Islands' comparatively few luxurious motors...
...Winchester: John Chester Miller of Tacoma, Washington: Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene of New York City; Saul Gerald Silverman of Cleveland, Ohio: George Winslow Simpkins of St. Louis, Missouri: Francis Beattie Thurber III of New York City: John Walker III of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Frederick Mundell Watkins of Providence. Rhode Island; Edward Cilley Weist of New York City; and John Frank Wood of Chester, Pennsylvania...
...managerial competition. Arthur Oakley Brooks '33, of New York City is first assistant Freshman manager, Hamilton Young '33, of Newton is second assistant manager, and the three dormitory managers, all of whose rank is equal, are Henri Bourneuf '33 of Chestnut Hill, Roger Sanderson Hewlett '33, of Cedarhurst, Long island, New York, and Roland Whitney Richards '33, of Saint Louis, Missouri...
...judges for the second case, which concerns Corporation Law, are the Honorable E. H. Brewster, United States District Judge for Massachusetts, the Honorable T. L. Marble, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire, and the Honorable J. S. Murdock, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island. The clubs arguing in this case are the Warren club, represented by V. V. R. Booth 31, and R. F. Young 3L, and the Chafee club, represented by R. F. Carney...