Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time when the first of China's treaties with foreign powers was made, in 1842," continued Professor Hornbeck, "the Chinese city of Shanghai was a walled city of some 500,000 inhabitants. After the port was 'opened' by a treaty with the British, the Chinese officials set aside an area outside the city where it was agreed the British should live and carry on their business; also an area for the French, and an area for the Americans. The foreigners developed these areas, turned empty, swampy mud flats into a great modern city. The Americans and British combined their areas...
...UNKNOWN PORT-Christine W. Parmenter-Croivell ($2). Where a teashop's ship sailed...
...From what English port did the Mayflower originally set sail...
...What country was Admiral Togo fighting when he captured Port Arthur...
Muscle Shoals, a Federal project, still hangs fire, but the Alabama Legislature at its last session authorized ten millions of state money for a state-controlled terminal at the port of Mobile, whither the Warrior flows. This action clearly certified the future of super-industry in Alabama and endorsed the condition Birmingham has in mind when, like pushful Chicago, Detroit and Los Angeles, it calls itself "Greater Birmingham." After years of "becoming," Birmingham was at last to be "great...