Word: isthmian
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...Isthmian Steamship Co.'s Black Eagle was probably halfway from Manila to Honolulu when the Navy's order came, at once made haste under forced draught. Loaded to the scuppers with rubber, tin, other strategic materials, she would be a fat prize in anyone...
From Penang, Isthmian's Ensley City was headed for seething and steaming Dutch East Indies ports. The Puerto Rican, out of Balik Papan, was homeward bound, her crew hopeful of reaching Boston...
...Isthmian Drive. Even more nastiness was in store for the Russians-especially in the Karelian Isthmus, historic gateway into Finland and the one Alexander I stormed with 17,000 men in 1808. Not only were roads, bridges and buildings mined-even a new bicycle left leaning against a fence was a detonator-but the Finns had utilized the geographical peculiarities of their country shrewdly...
...freighter Steel Mariner (Isthmian Line) told of seeing a U-boat off the "Scilly Islands, apparently unable to dive, limping along disguised crudely as a fishing boat. Up rushed a destroyer and sank...
...Isthmian Diplomacy to 1853," Professor Baxter, Harvard...