Word: port
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taking the R. O. T. C. cruise as part of their regular course in Naval Science the students were given instruction in every phase of seamanship from standing watch to piloting the boat. The students were entertained in every port with dances, teas, sight-seeing trips, and theatres...
After leaving London with the minimum retinue of four aides, Their Royal Highnesses proceeded by ordinary channel steamer to Calais, by ordinary sleeping car across France to Marseilles, and thence, by ordinary express steamer to Alexandria, chief port of Egypt...
...smell of fish, fowl, game, plants, men, sea water and crude oil steamed into Sydney, Nova Scotia, last week; took on a supply of fuel oil and at once left for Wiscasset, Me., its home port. It was the Bowdoin, Arctic exploration ship of Commander Donald B. MacMillan. His months of collecting showed that many specimens of plant and animal life existed farther north than scientists heretofore have realized. Commander MacMillan shut off from world news so long, was most eager to hear about trans-atlantic airplane flights...
...gallons of port wine...
...dispute with our good Belgian friends. ... If I may say so without offense, it is the product of the War mentality. Belgium is claiming the two provinces lying south of the Scheldt river on the ground, that it would give them the control of the Scheldt and free the port of Antwerp from the fear of any interference in case of war. They have suggested that we take a part of Germany in compensation, but the Dutch do not desire that way. The only case in which our ownership of these provinces, which we have owned ever since Holland...