Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Danzig Post Office. A committee to delimit the Port of Danzig decided that the port included not onlv the wharfs and waterside but also a good part of the business section of the city, cause of the ruling is that unde the Versailles Treaty Poland claims the right to postal service in the port of Danzig. Poland last year set up post boxes throughout Danzig German citizens knocked them down, mutilated them, spat upon them. The limits of the port are now tentatively defined...
...guns of the Argentine Fleet fairly embellished the air with a bombardment of noise as the British cruiser Curlew slipped into port at Buenos Aires. A natty little figure in the uniform of the Welsh Guards went ashore and the populace shouted, "Hurrah for the Prince of Wales!" in Spanish...
...morning he was met by President DAlvear and whisked away in an official automobile to the naval school, while crowds skipped away from under the car's wheels as it bore down upon them. The official party boarded the yacht Adhara and steamed through the traffic of the port, while for 30 minutes every vessel in the harbor screamed its siren in delight. A landing was made at La Blanco, Frigorifico, a great "meat factory...
...French Governor of Martinique, going home on vacation, was shot five times through the window of the steamer's salon before the ship sailed from Port de France. The Governor was critically wounded. The would-be assassin surrendered, said he wished to kill the Governor because his own father had been killed in May in an election riot which the Governor had failed to prevent...
...first Dr. Hartman's explorations will be archaeological-in the watery streets of Paleopolis, earliest Greek colony in Italy; now on the deep bottom of the Bay of Naples; and at Jerba, long-drowned port of Punic Carthage...