Word: boca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed better than their humdrum jobs (a broker's office, a radio-tube factory). Resolved to hunt orchids themselves, they somehow persuaded U. S. orchid growers to stake them to orders for 6,400 cattleyas from Colombia and Venezuela. When, one Christmas Eve, the venturesome young men reached Boca Grande, Orchid Hunter MacDonald was already at work on notes for his readable, Rover-Boyish orchid odyssey...
Best tarpon fishing is at Boca Grande (on the West Coast of Florida), Bahia Honda (in the Florida Keys) and Aransas Pass in Texas-where one may expect to catch at least one a day during June. World's record: 242½ Ibs., taken in the Panuco River, Mexico...
Without the interference of the Swiss Federal Government, the Bernese Interieur Department branch of vehicles & traffic, which office issued it, was asked consequently to reclaim Mr. Boca...
When a Briton named Bill Morris turned up with his Bible in Buenos Aires' Boca dock section in the late 1890's, that district had five saloons to the block, two policemen on every corner to keep murders down to about four per day. Bill Morris, a shabby little street-corner preacher, had been looking all over the world for just such a place. First thing he did was to pick four homeless ragamuffins off the street, install them in a garret. He taught them himself, begged money to feed and clothe them...
...notice. Bill Morris became a great figure in Argentina, his schools the nation's foremost philanthropy. By last week there were 150,000 Argentine citizens who owed their education to him. In 55 Morris Schools 15,000 urchins were being trained. But the cycle which began in a Boca garret had almost swung full course...