Word: harbors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When swift motors carried the Macdonalds to Boston, Ishbel cried: "Oh, we must go down to the wharf where the Indians threw tea into the harbor-Boston Tea Party, you know, Dads." Soon they stood upon what purports to be the very wharf. Later, proceeding to Philadelphia, Mr. Macdonald contracted bronchitis, was taken to Jefferson Hospital...
...commercial greatness was notoriously due, in part, to the fact that German businessmen were quickest to present the ultimate consumer with exactly what he wanted to buy under exactly the name and guise to which he was accustomed. Therefore, as the newest Hamburg-American Liner steamed toward New York harbor on her maiden voyage last week, the name painted at her keen bow and across her neat stern was, of course, New York...
...novel, having been successfully taken at the games held in 1912, and it cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent in Paris in the summer...
...were stripped and subjected to carnal violence. The Japanese consul, who was sick in bed, barely managed to escape with his life, saved nothing but a portrait of his Emperor, the sublime Son of Heaven. Later a Japanese officer, ostentatiously without arms, landed from a Japanese gunboat in the harbor, and with great coolness brought 160 Japanese citizens in safety from the city. ¶ At Nanking were killed: one U. S. citizen, the Harbor Master and Mr. L. S. Smith, both Britons, one French and one Italian Catholic priest and one unidentified Japanese seaman...
...consul, his wife and their children hastily set out with other refugees for an eminence known to ancient Chinese poets as The Purple Mountain and to moderns as Socony* Hill. Arrangements had already been made that U. S. and British warships in the harbor would lay a barrage to protect this valuable property-the signal for the barrage to be a rocket...