Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itinerant tinker, was brought up in ignorance of his birth. His new position enabled Stephen to marry well, prosper mightily in business. But he was haunted by his memories, superstitiously felt that his luck was too good to last. At length he fled secretly to the Malay archipelago. There he met an Englishwoman with a past as plaguey as his own and shared an island with her for three idyllic months. She swam out to the sharks when he asked her to share his hut. Heartbroken, Stephen returned to England to discover that his daughter had unknowingly fallen in love...
...Verville* left from Selwood Bay in his 45-ft. motored schooner Dora. With him were Alex ("Sandy") Austin, 21, and some Husky dogs. To get to Melville Island the party had to skirt the westerly shore of Banks Island, the westernmost of the stupendous archipelago which clutters the Arctic north of Canada. Off Banks Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other...
Goona-Goona (Independent) is the first cinema taken in the island of Bali in the Malay Archipelago. Producer André Roosevelt (distant cousin) and his son-in-law Armand Denis privately showed a first version three years ago in Manhattan. They have revised and cut it, added a new beginning. They still deserve credit as the discoverers of Bali, despite Charles Trego's lovelier Isle of Paradise (TIME, Sept. 12). Goona-Goona was shown at the French Colonial Exposition in Paris, rushed out of storage following the success of Isle of Paradise...
...letter protesting that Hawaii's turbulent month had been grossly, sensationally exaggerated. In defense of conditions in their Pacific paradise they pointed out that: 1) crime was no rarity on the mainland; 2) the island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is situated, is not the largest in the archipelago while on Maui and Hawaii, all was serenely peaceful; 3) it was absurd to say that Hawaii had a "race problem," when only a tiny fraction of the mixed population was making trouble. The Hawaii Tourist Bureau cabled that the Kahahawai incident had been played up in a manner "terribly...
Japan, the Malay Archipelago and South America have geyser regions. But they do not compare in number or size to those of Iceland, New Zealand or Yellowstone. Yellowstone's are the biggest and best to look...