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Word: harborless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1935-1935
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...wants to send an emissary to Liberia, he is lucky if there is a ship sailing for the African West Coast within a month, luckier still if the emissary reaches Monrovia in less than another month. 3) When the emissary lands in a surf boat at Liberia's harborless capital, he finds a dirty, ramshackle tropical town whose inhabitants consist of about 100 whites, 10,000 blacks, and 1,000,000 rats, where a one-year tour of duty is considered the equivalent of three years at Warsaw or Moscow. 4) The emissary's job is to deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Wound Unsalted | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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