Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tied for fifth place; that a Ukranian, Boguljubow, had taken fourth, Saemisch of Germany third, Rubinstein of Poland second, and this undefeatable one, Alexander Alekhine of Russia, first. His victory makes him unquestionably the logical challenger of the world's chess champion, José R. Capablanca of Cuba...
...world was represented at the convention by persons from Great Britain, Cuba, Peru, Switzerland, Mexico, China, and by an official message from Japan. Some thoughts-religious, poetic, economic-brought forward...
Bingham. Into Miami cruised the black Pawnee, sleek yacht of Henry Payne Bingham of Manhattan. On her decks were bucket-mouthed, serpentine fish, a sea-cow, glass sponges, monster iguanas (lizards) from Swan Island (300 miles south of Cuba), giant shrimps with pincers like lobsters. The Pawnee had been seeking the rhynodontypicus, a species of leviathan taken near Swan Island in 1912. Among the tales the mariners told was that of a .vast elemental shape the Negroes called "Sapodilla Tom," which surged up beneath the boat, lifted his dorsal and was gone. Off the coast of Honduras, "a great winged...
...Republic of Cuba granted a subsidy to the Cuba R. R., a U. S. corporation. Is such subsidy taxable income? (The District Court decision had cost the Railroad...
Came from Washington General Machado, President-elect of Cuba. Up went the blue and white stripes, the single star...