Tropical capital

Usage examples of manila.

Mark shifted and referred to the third manila folder on his side of Abram desk.

His fame spread as far as Rome, and soon Jesuits began to arrive in Manila from Goa in the west and Acapulco in the east, and to request him by name.

It was told me by one Alfonso, who was first mate aboard a galleon that left Manila for Acapulco some years ago.

Only when the Manila Galleon or the Lima treasure-fleet was expected did white men swarm down out of the mountains and kick out the squatters and turn Acapulco into a semblance of a real city.

And inasmuch as the duties are paid in Acapulco on those who are sold there, because of the inconvenience of paying them in Manila, we order that the president and auditors of our royal Audiencia of Filipinas provide that it be so observed and executed.

Audiencia of Manila rate the amount of what the mates on the ships shall exact in the port of Acapulco for the guard of boxes, barrels, and other articles of merchandise.

My first twenty- three years ill- prepared me to be plunked down as a World War II infantryman for three and one- half years-- in the dank jungles of the Solomon Islands, in the lethal streets and buildings of Manila and on the frightening, winding mountain roads leading up to Baguio in the Philippines.

Following the Manila campaign, the regiment reorganized and re- equipped in Manila and, on 7 April 1945 received orders to move to Naguilian to join in the attack on Baguio, the Philippine summer capital and one of the remaining Japanese strong points on Luzon.

Corregidor was an island in Manila Bay two miles off the tip of Bataan, about thirty miles from the capital of the Philippines, Manila.

It remembered from ordnance maps at the Bataan base that Manila Bay was about forty kilometers south, and there were plenty of rivers through the Panga and Bulacan provinces.

Once in Manila Bay, it was about sixty kilometers around the Bataan peninsula to the South China Sea.

It might almost be said that from Manila to Cagayan and Ilocos Norte it left no stone upon the other.

Manila and destructive in Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northeastern Luzon.

The dirty dishes in the sink, me and the caseworker sitting at the kitchen table with the telephone and all her manila folders spread out on the yellow-and-white-check tablecloth, gin and tonics in hand at ten a.

From another pocket of the case he pulled out a one-way ticket on Philippines Airline Flight 434 from Manila to Cebu City in the southern Philippines.