Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...filled with lyddite. The cost of these explosive paravanes is, including the winch and apparatus, almost as high as that of a torpedo. Once paravane is streamed it is a very risky, if not impossible job to get it in without blowing it up. It is impossible make port with it because it will blow up on striking bottom ( being fitted with cross triggers in the head) so one has to be very sure that they have a submarine to deal with before putting the paravane out. TIME keeps me in touch with the world and I revel...
Current activity in the Business School is marked by the appearance of the annual Year Book, and the purchase by the Business Historical Society of the Marblehead collection of valuable manuscripts and port records pertaining to New England trade and industry a hundred years...
...aside his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and his toddling great-great-grand-daughter as they sought to prevent his departure from London last week to celebrate his 100th birthday by riding to hounds. Said he, "I prefer to die in the saddle!" That evening he returned alive, sipped his port...
Foiled, mob-leaders plotted an attack next day on a train scheduled to arrive salt-laden at Cuenca from Ecuador's chief port, Guayaquil. Having heaped large stones and timbers upon the railway track, they foolishly sought to make assurance doubly sure by cutting the telegraph wires. At Guayaquil, the authorities, warned by telegraph trouble that something was amiss, placed armed guards upon the salt train which easily scattered the attacking peasantry...
From the Tenno* to whom he is what von Tirpitz was to Wilhelm II, Admiral Togo accepted, perforce, The Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, The First Order of the Golden Kite, and his creation in 1907 as a count. At the time of his capture of Port Arthur the State declared the victory due to "the Virtue of the Tenno." The Tenno ascribed it to the intercession of his ancestors. Admiral Togo, asked which of these theories he favored, replied gravely and laconically: "Both...