Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emperor of Japan. To them he is a descendant of the Sun Goddess, and thus actually possessed of Godhood. Moreover, only one dynasty has reigned* and still reigns in Japan. All spiritual and temporal good flows from the Emperor. Even the greatest of all Japanese victories, the capture of Port Arthur by Admiral Togo (1905), was officially ascribed to "the virtue of the Emperor." Therefore last week when the people of Japan set about the funeral of the late Emperor Yoshihito (TIME, Jan. 3), they very properly proceeded as though they were escorting a god to his last rest. Expense...
...what a change!" he says. "A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us,--call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town--a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town--has been started, is growing beneath our very nose- We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government,"--we are not sure that the College, whose refining, softening, broadening influence has so long been felt throughout the whole country...
...action has been the principle worry with regard to Shanghal General Sun, who holds at present the province in which Shanghai is located, is opposing the advance of the nationalist leader, General Chiang. The foreign population of the port and surrounding country of Shanghai is approximately 40,000 and the Chinese population about 1,300,000. There are huge investments there, both foreign and Chinese which would be jeopardized, as well as the lives of the citizens, if the Chinese armies were to try to seize Shanghai. It is for this reason that various governments are sending ships and soldiers...
...became acquainted with an Englishman and a Scotchman, and started with them on a rice-selling expedition. They chartered a sampan, and after no few experiences, managed to buy ten sacks of the valuable grain from a schooner at Macao. They sailed back to Hongkong, to find the port closed. They were caught while trying to slip in after dark, and had to durop their cargo to avoid a fine...
...ship bound for Boston steamed into port. Leys was determined to board it for the homeward trip. He got a job helping to unload, and found that his chances of shipping aboard the vessel were very slender, as it already had one man, a stowaway, in irons to prevent his slipping ashore. There was nothing to do but wait for the next ship, while Plumer, wherever he might have been, made his way toward the goal...