Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typical New England Ship Master, went to sea out of his native Newburyport, Mass., at 17. For 12 years he navigated the seven seas, as boy, able seaman, master mariner. He saw mutinies, endured shipwreck, felt the stiff kick of weather in typhoonous China seas. In the home port of old Newburyport one day he met Alice, daughter of Banker Albert W. Greenleaf, aristocratic Massachussets name, courted, married, took his bride to sea, retired three years later from his quarterdeck to manufacture ecclesiastical stained glass for Scandinavian Lutheran churches at Minneapolis, Minn. A few years later he was a magnate...
Tonight before the meeting of the candidates Bump will briefly outline the history and purpose of the organization. The competitors will be expected to devote two afternoons a week to the competition, one afternoon at the air port to become familiar with the mechanics, construction and operation of the plane; the second afternoon to be devoted to clerical work in Cambridge...
Mason Osborne Damon 2L. of Port Dodge, lowa, and a graduate of Amherst College, was elected vice-president of the organization to succeed J. C. Morley...
...page of photographs of "life at sea". Much trouble was evidently taken and the photographs and their grouping are wholly in the bur lesque spirit from the shuffle board game with pie pans to the representation of Lady Montbatten ascending the grand stairway of the New Amsterdam third class port holes in the background...
...India I remember three things-blistering heat, air currents that threw my plane and me about like a shuttlecock and endless crowds of kind-hearted people pressing hospitality upon me." Calcutta's port . . . Burmese forests . . . Singapore, where mud hindered his take-off and made him almost strike low buildings. Over Melanasia, and the East Indies tropical rains swept around...