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Word: sampans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most exciting experience was encountered when he was caught running contraband rice into Hongkong, and was forced to dump his cargo over the side of his sampan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEYS SPEAKS ON TRAVELS TO LARGE CROWD AT UNION | 2/10/1927 | See Source »

Chartered Sampan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEYS TO TELL OF HIS RACE AROUND GLOBE | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEYS TO TELL OF HIS RACE AROUND GLOBE | 2/9/1927 | See Source »

...week the Kuang Yuang, a river troopship loaded with munitions and 1,500 mercenaries lay at anchor off Kiukiang on the Yangtze. The soldiers, allegedly adherent to Sun Chuan-feng, dozed, gambled, chomped a frugal meal of rice, fired an occasional shot into the air or at a passing sampan to while away the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Pigmy Colossus | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

Premier Wakatsuki and his secretary swam. They swam down to the two policemen, swam up dragging them by the hair, kept swimming until another sampan rescued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Potent Premier | 7/5/1926 | See Source »

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