Word: aboard
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...published last week in the annual report of the No.1 U. S. Marine, Major General Wendell Gushing Neville. In Nicaragua were 1,800, in Haiti 887,* in the Virgin Islands 111, in Guam 572, Philippines 215, Hawaii 395, Shanghai 1,049 Peking 486, not to count the men aboard Navy ships around the world...
...President Hoover to supply U. S. supervision for the April elections, as was done last year in Nicaragua. Arrests were only for violation of the 9 p. m. curfew under martial law. President Borno's daughter Madeleine was ceremoniously taken to wife by Daniel Brun, architect. Additional Marines dispatched aboard the U. S. S. Wright were diverted to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the U. S. House of Representatives moved to give President Hoover the investigating commission he had asked for (TIME...
With 319 passengers aboard, the S. S. Andalucia Star limped into Falmouth, rudderless. In the Bristol Channel, the Radyr went down with all hands...
Emboldened by Manchurian quiet, T. Leonard Lilliestrom, U. S. Vice Consul at Harbin, organized an international train to pass along the Chinese Eastern Railway, investigate conditions in the area of Sino-Russian dispute. The consuls of Britain, Japan, France and Germany climbed aboard...
...with an eye for pioneering possibilities, discover the account of a barque that is to make its farewell voyage from Vancouver to the Fiji Islands. There are numerous difficulties of practicality and convention to be overcome, but the author and her friend are signed as midshipmaids, and depart, aboard a ship with a cannibal cook and a crew of old-time sailors. The journey takes about two months; the body of the book is made up of the ship's log, which was kept by Miss Cooper...