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Word: hongkong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Colombo, Hongkong, Shanghai, the ship nosed her way. Port officials went aboard, came off marveling. By now only a small group of men were trying to maintain discipline. One worried boy moaned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Cruise of the Ada Rehan | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...Chungking the U.S. Army employs many English-speaking Chinese girls, mostly from Hongkong, Shanghai and Tientsin. They have been brought up under Western influences. They like to dance, date boys, kid around. But when they dated U.S. soldiers, Chungking confused them with the jeep girls who ply their trade with great zest and professional abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jeep Girls | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...seconds later Woods radioed Hong Kong: "BOTH PLANES OFF PROCEEDING HONGKONG." Four hours later the hybrid was home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: Space Machine Patched | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

Hsien Hsiang Ku, of Hongkong, China, S.B. Purdue '40; Donald W. Loiselle, of Concord, N. H., S.B.U. of N. H. '40; Taylor Lyman, of Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., A.B. Stanford '40; Edward J. McBride, S.M. '39, of Chester, Pa.; Henry F. Maling Jr., S.M. '40; of Arlington; Stanley J. Markowski, of Thompsonville, Conn., S.B. Conn., '40; Richard H. Meese, of Santa Rosa, Calif., S.B. Washington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO FORTY-SIX | 5/9/1940 | See Source »

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