Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mercedes Gleitz, London stenographer who said she swam the Strait of Gibraltar and the English Channel, tried to swim from Ireland to Scotland, 21%½ miles across the North Channel from Donaghadee to Port Patrick, but couldn't make...
...week, the U. S. aircraft carrier Lexington lifted anchor at San Pedro, Calif., bound for Honolulu. It broke the 24-hr, record the first day out, steaming 700 miles. It broke it again on the second day with 742 miles. On the third day it raced 770 miles to port. The Lexington with Capt. A. W. Marshall in command, had made the fastest sea passage ever logged between the U. S. and Hawaii, covering 2,228 nautical miles in 72 hours, 34 minutes; also the world's record for 24-hr, runs...
Russia, shortly voted through the Budget. A second striking result of the Dictator's sudden abandonment of the role of "Possum" was the sending, last week, of three Polish light cruisers to anchor threateningly in the port of the famed Free City of Danzig. Polish cargo ships, it was alleged, have recently been denied adequate anchorage and docking facilities by Danzigers...
...famed port-city of Tientsin, from which Peking is reached, was surrounded on three sides, last week by Nanking Nationalist Armies and then quietly occupied...
...Felstead, Sir Hugh, collected a winner's purse of $55,000. Others, humble people carrying on difficult, dull lives, with no time to go to horse-races, had won more heavily than he on Felstead. A sailor named Masten Webb on a freight ship getting into the port of Columbo held the winning ticket, worth $1,250,000, on Felstead in the Calcutta Sweepstake. A girl named Helm who works in a London brewery won $625,000 in the Stock Exchange Pool. A stock broker had held the ticket on Black Watch (worth $10,000) but had sold...