Word: rico
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Col. Lindbergh garlanded the Caribbean with Good Will, he especially expected and especially received a felicitous reception in Puerto Rico, the brick-shaped, easternmost member of the Greater Antilles. There he landed among fellow countrymen. Puerto Ricans have been, by act of Congress in 1917 or by act of God (birth) since then, citizens...
Radio Corporation of America (in 1927 direct radio services were inaugurated with the Dutch West Indies, Philippines, Northern South America, Porto Rico, Belgium, Hongkong via Manila, & Turkey)-$11,799,650. Previous year...
...this change it has been decided in give all men in the College or Engineering School another opportunity to try out for the two teams which will face Carleton and the University of Porto Rico. The question which will be argued in the debate with the Porto Ricans corresponds very nearly to that in the other debate. It reads: "Resolved, That the United States cease to protect with armed forces American investments in the Carribean without prior declaration...
...debating schedule this year is more inclusive than ever before. For the first time the University team will face the University of Porto Rico and the University of the Philippines. There will also be a debate with Northwestern, while several other debates are pending. The climax of the season will come with the Triangular Meet, when Yale debates at Cambridge and Harvard meets Princeton at Princeton...
From the Lesser to the Greater Antilles the flyer took the tiniest hop of his trip. San Juan, Porto Rico was only 90 miles away. Col. Lindbergh doubled the distance by flying out of his way in a sharp arc to give natives of St. Croix Island a glimpse of him in passing. At San Juan he had three notable experiences. The first was an orderly and properly policed landing. The propensities of crowds on three continents to smash police lines wherever formed around a Lindbergh terminal was checked in Porto Rico. Six hundred native police, local militia...