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Word: harboring (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister of Railways Sun Fo announced last week that contracts have been signed, providing for the remodeling and enlargement of Nanking and the harbor of Canton by two New Yorkers, an architect and an engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Seaport Engineer Ernest P. Goodrich will so enlarge the harbor of Canton and deepen its connection with the sea that eventually the transshipment of goods at the British seaport of Hongkong, nearby, will be eliminated. Thus a potent source of revenue will be wrested from Britons in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nationalist Notes | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Today the Harvard eleven again performs before the eyes of the athletic world. Its showing against Dartmouth will constitute an important milestone on the road to failure or to success. It is thus not because we harbor any ill will toward the representatives of the Big Green every Harvard man would like to make the week end as pleasant as possible for his Hanoverian guests-but rather because victory is indispensible to a well deserved recognition that we hope to see the Crimson clad warriors on the big end of the score in this afternoon's gridiron battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICTORY | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

...husband, Viscount Lascelles, landed in Ire- land. Not since 1921 when King George attended the opening of the Ulster Parliament in Belfast had British royalty stepped upon Irish soil. Therefore it was of great interest to see how Princess & husband would be greeted. When first they landed at Kingstown harbor, loyal welcoming Irishmen cheered, waved flags. But others, unruly, loudly hissed, catcalled. Princess Mary & husband then motored to their castle at Portumna, on the river Shannon. Through the courtesy of the Free State Government a bullet proof automobile was lent. At Portumna, they discovered that Irish firebrands had tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royalty | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Whether or not the colleges harbor the cream of the country's youthful intelligence, it is undeniable that they furnish a matchless environment for the formation of intelligent and disinterested political opinion. This factor, if no other, gives the results of a university poll, such as is now projected for Harvard, a distinct and unrivalled value...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENTIAL POLL | 10/18/1928 | See Source »

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