Word: insularly
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After Coventry they smote Birmingham, Southampton and Plymouth. After these, Liverpool and Bristol-west-coast ports through which the supplies that insular Britain needs from the U. S. and elsewhere must pass. After these, last week, night-flying Germans again dropped crushing loads of explosive on Birmingham and on Bristol, on Plymouth, and on Manchester, the cotton and textile centre even greater in wealth and prestige than any other British city except London, having a ship canal of its own to bring in imports, a surrounding web of heavy industry, and important rail connections. Next followed two smashing new assaults...
Emerson's post, originally known as the Bureau of Insular Affairs, was created to coordinate the governments of the colonies. The department of State, the War Department, and the Department of the Navy each govern the possessions under their respective jurisdictions...
Japan's Army has had such an extended jamboree on the vast continent of China that it has forgotten how insular the little homeland is. Last week, after six sudden setbacks, Japan's puzzled militarists were forced to recollect...
...Interior the Bureau of Insular Affairs (War) for consolidation with the Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Bureau of Fisheries (Commerce) and Bureau of Biological Survey (Agriculture), to lump conservation agencies...
...country to show the styles, manners, opinions, interests of the American people. But after Mr. Mason gets his reader into the actual conflict with the Spaniard, he entirely forgets to write of the folks back home and embarks on an inconsequential play-by-play account of Shafter's insular campaign and Dewey's tugboat race to Manila...