Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the horses get to the top of the hill they race for 30 seconds on a level piece of track against the sky and the people in the grandstand can see them for the first time. Flamingo was in front with Ranjit Singh close to him; then came Port Hole and Royal Minstrel and Felstead and Sunny Trace ridden by Gordon Richards, England's premier jockey. They left the level and ran wildly downhill toward the hairpin turn called Tattenham Corner. No horse has a chance unless he is one of the first two or three...
...students believed that Prime Minister Vukitchevitch was about to yield to Italian pressure and press for ratification. Mounted ominously the hereditary hatred of rival peoples who face each other across a narrow sea. Suddenly came an insult to fire the charge of hatred. Jugoslav correspondents reported from the Italian port of Zara that a convention of Italian war veterans had met, sung songs in which Jugoslavs were referred to as pigs, and adopted a resolution to the effect that Italy should seize Dalmatia...
...political consciousness and confusion, was committed to Daylight Saving Time by its City Council. Its mayor then vetoed the ordinance. But last week the City Council overrode the veto, six votes to three. Effective in the repassage was Novelist-Councilman Meredith Nicholson (The House of a Thousand Candles, The Port of Missing Men, Otherwise Phyllis, etc., etc.), now serving his first term. Mr. Nicholson reported that he had received a telegram from Will H. Hays, cinema tsar, declaring that "the movies" would be ruined in Indianapolis if clocks were put ahead one hour. Mr. Nicholson retorted that he had just...
...annual winter unemployment problems of agrarian Argentina were made more than usually acute, last week, by two strikes. The strike among longshoremen at the port-city of Rosario caused sympathetic strikes to break out at Buenos Aires and Sante Fe where three rioting strikers were killed. Meanwhile President Marcelo de Alvear was attempting without apparent success to prevent the calling of a threatened general strike of all railway and allied workers...
...Tientsin, the port nearest to Peking, were U. S. Brigadier General Smedley Darlington ("Old Gimlet Eye") Butler, U. S. forces of 3,950, and Allied troops bringing the total up to some 8,600, all subject in case of a general emergency to General Arai of Japan...