Word: seaport
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...Memel, a port on the Baltic Sea, was transferred to the Allied and Associated Powers by the Treaty of Versailles and subsequently awarded to Lithuania (after Lithuania had taken it). The Lithuanian Government, however, refused to ratify the agreement of a convention framed to regulate the future of the seaport. Negotiation with the Council of Ambassadors failed and the question was finally referred to the League...
After running the gauntlet of diplomatic guns for nearly 20 years, the status of Tangier, seaport and district on the coast of Morocco, was fixed by an agreement signed provisionally in Paris by Britain, France and Spain. The Spanish representative stated that he was signing the agreement only as a suggestion to his Government and not on its behalf...
...plot of soil, and whose sailors ploughed furrows through all the seven seas; the spirit and solidity that existed, as Mr. Pulsifer rather neatly and metaphorically puts it, "before the coming of King Gasoline". To illustrate his point, the author has taken as his example the old seaport of Middlehaven, one time builder and guardian of clipper ships and salt-water heroes; and he has arrayed on one side Caleb Gurney, a character who, but for the pathos of his position and the understanding of the author, would be simply a type "wind-and-rigging" sailor; and on the other...
Laurence H. Kearney, U. S. citizen, charged with leading a plot to smuggle arms into China, was arrested at the seaport of Ching-Hai. Bail was allowed at $5,000. The warrant for his arrest was issued by U. S. Consular agents on July...
Another expedition led by, Dr. Sixten Strombom has excavated the city of New Lodose, successor to the old city, and the immediate predecessor of Gothenburg as Sweden's western seaport. These various archaeological undertakings throw considerable light on Scandinavian history and culture, especially in the medieval period. Dr. Sarauw's work is important in the prehistory of Sweden's west coast, which is one of the richest sections in Sweden from the archaeologist's viewpoint...