Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the scientists, headed by fierce-mustached Professor Rudolph Samoilovitch of Leningrad, are two from the U. S.: Lincoln Ellsworth and Lieut.-Commander Edward H. Smith of the Coast Guard. There was a plan to halt the Graf over Kamenev Island in Northern Land Archipelago, lower an inflatable boat or a basket and take aboard Professor Urvantzov, who has for a year conducted an observation station there...
...Soundings Tomlinson writes on: skiing in Switzerland, a launch trip in the Malay Archipelago, Sea-Dog Frobisher and contemporary worthies, an overnight voyage in a wrecking tug, the talkies, an old man who loses his identity on a train, Thomas Hardy, et al. Whether you read him for the first time or the 20th you will probably admire his musing, sombre earnestness. Whether it bores you or sustains you depends on whether you like pipe-smoking, solitude, reflection...
...15th Century by one Juan Bermudez, a Spaniard who had the misfortune to be wrecked there with a cargo of hogs. Most of Bermuda's earliest visitations were forcible. In 1609 Sir George Somers was shipwrecked there, established the first permanent settlement and gave the little archipelago its alternate name of Somers Islands. The town of St. George, first capital of Bermuda, is named not for Britain's patron saint but for Sir George Somers. In 1612 the islands were granted by charter to an offshoot of the Virginia Company. William Shakespeare had heard enough about them...
...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...
...Catholic hierarchy regards Omaha as a towering isle in a sea of Protestantism. Of Nebraska's 1,378,900 population, 160,000 are Roman Catholics?Germans, Irish, Bohemians, Mexicans?living among their Fundamentalist co-citizens. Head of that Catholic archipelago is Bishop Joseph Francis Rummel, host of the Eucharistic Congress...