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Word: isla (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they would have to fight for a Motherland that many of them love none too well. Basis of these rumors was a braided assemblage at Governor Blanton Winship's palace, La Fortaleza, in San Juan. Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn arrived with a retinue of officers to look at Isla Grande, a 300-acre smudge in upper San Juan Harbor, to see whether it would be useful as a Caribbean naval and air base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Base Hunting | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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