Word: peninsula
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement. But the figures are correct."... Peregrine White '33, president of Phillips Brooks House, "We will be glad to cooperate." ... A. N. Holcombe '06, "I can see no plausible reason why this should have any detrimental influence on the aggrandizement of Japan in the disputed area in the Liaotung Peninsula." ... W. S. Sims, Jr. '33, ex-president of the CRIMSON, "The continue lines are wrong." ... F. D. Roosevelt '04, former Harvard man, "I wanted him for my Cabinet." ... A. L. Lowell '77, President of the University, "I have not said anything for twenty-four years, and I don't intend...
...been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced to disgorge...
...burning bush through which God spoke to Moses was atop either Mt. Sinai or, according to another tradition, Mount St. Catherine twelve miles to the south. St. Catherine is the higher. It is the highest (8,540 ft.) peak, the point nearest the Sun in the rocky Sinai Peninsula. For that reason-and because the atmosphere thereabouts is almost dustless, almost hazeless-rather than for holy associations, the Smithsonian Institution decided that the top of St. Catherine was the best accessible place in the entire Eastern Hemisphere for a solar observatory. Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot last week announced that building...
...They told me, too, they had found skulls and bones of white men washed up along the coast from Prince of Wales Island right down to Boothia Peninsula...
...true airmail contracts but "star routes"* won from the dogsled contractors by underbidding. The contractor is required only to carry the mail, receives no extra compensation for flying it. (A 3? stamp on a letter is sufficient.) Thus, on Alaskan Airways' eight "star" routes between the Seward Peninsula, the Yukon and above the Arctic Circle, a pilot must land at every prospector's shack where a letter is to be delivered, or where a signal is displayed that a letter is to be picked up. On the 200-mi. route between Tanana and Ruby, planes make as many...