Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point out that Brig.-General Francis La Jeune Parer, chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was a bachelor (soltero) he called him a solitaria (tape-worm...
Four years ago Mrs. Morton started for Mexico to induce that country to part with one of its insular possessions in the Pacific. On the way she learned that an islet lying in San Pedro Channel off Southern California apparently belonged to nobody...
...ultimate salvation. Certainly it gives them more concrete reason for occupying the palaces in York Fields. It should silence the casual undergraduate who might look at the vast financial outlay represented in their houses and say "Why?" The possibility of service in keeping the quadrangles from becoming too strictly insular has advantages which commend themselves over the nebulous aims of the contemporary organizations. Yale Daily News...
Historically it is of record that the tunnel project, first officially embodied in the Anglo-French protocol of May 3, 1875, has repeatedly been blocked by British fear of a subaqueous invasion, and the Englishman's jealous love of his "splendid isolation." Today however even the most insularly minded are beginning to see that invasion from the skies is the real danger and that a channel tunnel would be vastly advantageous to British commerce in time of peace and easily dynamitable in case of war with France. So pikestaff plain are the advantages of a sub-Channel railway that last...
Every "reorganization" intelligent was M.P. knew that "merger" or this a move to threaten British motor makers; but simply an attempt by Mr. Ford to enhance the appeal of his "Made in England" motor cars by admitting insular Britons to a share in Ford profits. None the less petulant M.P.'s raised a rumpus...