Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time New Yorkers looked seriously at the facts of Harlem life: ^ Harlem covers three square miles in the northern section of Manhattan above Central Park. It is an anthropologist's heaven, bulging with a population of 250,-ooo American, African and West Indian Negroes, 125,000 Puerto Ricans, 150,000 Italians, Chinese, Filipinos, East Indians, Haitians...
...Harlem side streets and the hilly, wooded section of Central Park next to Harlem, bands of Negro and Puerto Rican boys prey on playing children, robbing them of bicycles, skates, wrist watches, clothes. When they rob a man, they often take his pants to forestall a chase...
...when he wrote "Inside Europe" and "Inside Asia," John Gunther might well be expected to crash through with another attempt to get "inside" some place or other. And that is exactly what he's done in "Inside Latin America," a racy and thoroughly informative sketch of Latin America, plays Puerto Rico and Trinidad...
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...
...cold," you might say. But not to these hardy fellows. They love it, all four of them--President Bob Betts '44 and charter members Jake Crane 3rd '44, Bill Eiser '44, and Nick (The Spik from Puerto Ric) Fratt...