Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night last week the 1,650-ton Spanish Loyalist destroyer Jose Luis Diez got up steam, weighed anchor, laid down a smoke screen and left Admiralty Harbor, on the Atlantic side of Gibraltar. Scarcely had she moved from the British-protected waters before her crew saw rockets flare from a housetop on the Rock. No one needed to tell them what those flares meant: they were signals from Rebel watchers notifying Rebel warships patrolling the Straits of Gibraltar that the Jose Luis Diez, having waited for weeks to make her getaway, was trying a second time to run the blockade...
...dead were buried at sea from a British destroyer. A strong British guard was placed aboard the Jose Luis Diez after her Spanish crew was taken off and interned in military detention barracks in Gibraltar. Next day British tugs refloated the Loyalist destroyer and towed her back to Admiralty Harbor...
...papers to be presented, the multiple preoccupations of science had to share the spotlight. On hand to see that the pituitary got its share of attention, however, was a pituitary master: Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island...
Ocean City. The reclaimers of Flushing dump could be reasonably sure that any exposition erected there would be a delightful improvement on the scene, but San Francisco's exposition builders were far from such a certainty. For the city and harbor of San Francisco constitute one of the great urban beauties of North America. San Francisco Bay is not only vast-48 miles long, embracing 450 square miles of roadstead-but magnificently visible, cupped by the steeply carved mountains of the coast range. San Francisco rises in clean, pale tiers of buildings on the hilly peninsula between this shining...
...Stanhope Bayne-Jones and Ross Granville Harrison of Yale, John Howard Northrop and James Bumgardner Murphy of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Clarence Cook Little, head of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory, Bar Harbor...