Word: outposts
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...London Times has a British sovereign evinced such intense displeasure.* Again last week the Times served as vox Regis, spoke for the Crown words which set every Briton of birth and breeding a-bristle with indignation. It all began at Australia House. Situated in the heart of London this outpost contains Maj. General Hon. Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, High Commissioner in Great Britain for His Majesty's Government in Australia. Up to last week Australia House had been as unimportant in English eyes as the equally imposing India House -mere symbols both. Up to last week the appointment...
...Perhaps because of its gravity, this question attracted most public interest: You are the head of an expedition which has come to grief in the desert. There is enough food and water left to enable three people to get to the nearest outpost of civilization. The rest must perish. Your companions are: 1. A brilliant scientist 60 years old. 2. Two half-breed guides ages 58 and 32. 3. The scientist's wife-interested mainly in society matters, age 39. 4. Her little son, age six. 5. The girl you are engaged to marry. 6. Your best friend...
Most significant was the suppression of news from Sholapur, no remote outpost among wild tribes, but a prosperous cotton milling city of 120,000, only 220 miles from the teeming seaport of Bombay. Not until 1,000 soldiers of the Royal Ulster Rifles had in effect recaptured Sholapur for the Crown, last week, was it made known that for several days the city had flown the flag of Indian Nationalism (white, green and red tricolor), had been under swaraj or "self rule" St. Gandhi's famed ideal...
...Xingu (pronounced: Shengoo) country of Brazil in 1925, they intended to investigate rumored traces of a lost civilization. When they had not returned nearly three years later, a search party was sent out under Explorer G. M. Dyott. With him went four inexperienced white men. In Cuyaba, last outpost of civilized Brazil, they picked up five camerados (porters). This book tells what the relief expedition accomplished...