Ponape
Americannoun
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When Germany owned Ponape before World War I, a few scientists made sketchy reports.
From Time Magazine Archive
A former New York police department chaplain, Costigan directs the Ponape agriculture and trade school, an isolated 200-acre experimental farm reachable only by boat.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Navy may intend to occupy nearby islands like Kusaie and Ponape, by-pass Truk.
From Time Magazine Archive
Says Ponape District Attorney Minor Pounds, a native Texan: "If we're going to have a Western society, some of our Western standards will have to start rubbing off on the common man."
From Time Magazine Archive
But she did not know that the current and trade wind were setting the canoe quickly away from Ponape towards a group of low-lying atolls called Ngatik.
From The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 by Becke, Louis
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