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Word: visitor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly Hall on Pitcairn Island clanged gladly one sundown last fortnight. Through the dim light a ship had just been sighted, and the 200-odd hybrid descendants of H. M. S. Bounty's, mutineers rushed out on Adamstown's headland to strain eyes for their first visitor in over two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITCAIRN ISLAND: Relief | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...visitor, guided by the island's blinker and its own searchlight, eased in to an anchorage. The natives swarmed aboard. On deck they had a big surprise-the smiling face of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, genuinely happy to be of assistance, only incidentally pleased to find himself hip-deep in news again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PITCAIRN ISLAND: Relief | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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