Word: embarkation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Chang Tso-lin adopted an attitude of even greater indifference toward chunky, placid, middle-aged Mme. Borodin. She was released from jail under an amnesty, and at once hastened to Tientsin, preparing to embark there for Vladivostok...
Next day Dr. Solis-Cohen deemed Mr. Macdonald sufficiently recovered to allow him to proceed to Manhattan where he expected to embark for England on the Cunarder Berengaria...
...came to America direct from Japan, where I was Ambassador, and America is so important a post that I do not feel I should embark upon the tasks of the embassy until I return to Paris and receive instructions...
Iwajiro Suzuki, her late husband, inherited a prospering merchant business and died a rich man; but it was his general manager, Kaneko Naokishi, who emboldened Mme. Suzuki to embark on a succession of daring financial coups...
...from school to college has ceased to be the yawning chasm it once was. This statement, as far as it goes, is true for the college freshman of today, who undoubtedly receives a truer conception and a better preparation for the four years on which he is about to embark than the youth in a similar position twenty or thirty years ago. Preparatory schools have assumed a somewhat more collegiate atmosphere, scholarship is on a high plane and college athletic contests, which most men planning to enter college attend, offer a chance to see a bit of college life...