Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Lloyd kept a coffee house in Tower Street which catered to seafaring men. He decided to start a little 'bulletin called Lloyd's News, parent of the present Lloyd's List, in which he chronicled the goings and comings of sailing craft in the Port of London. This proved an immense success and in 1692 he moved his coffee house to more spacious quarters in Lombard Street and expanded the bulletin to include general information. Parliament became annoyed because Edward Lloyd, so it is said, knew more than it; the paper was suppressed. In 1726, Edward...
During 1923 over 120,000,000 pounds of fresh fish have been landed at the port of Boston alone, and a distinct business revival is reported in the old fishing town of Gloucester...
...Winnipeg, one Stanley Carlson equipped himself with a cowhide suit covered with spikes an inch long, announced his intention of departing soon for Port Arthur to slay wolves by clouting them on the head with an axe while they nibble at his armor...
...were against him, but he saved the Escampobars and fooled the English. Arlette was happy with her man-and as, for the old rover, the Brother of the .Coast, the man of dark deeds but of large heart, when the English bullets found him, he found sleep after toil, port after stormy seas...
Securely lodged in Canton, Dr. Sun was reported to be on the point of declaring that city a free port and erecting a customs barrier around it. This would, it was pointed out, deprive Peking of 13% of its maritime customs and would thereby weaken the Central Government's already shaky finances. This is evidently part of Dr. Sun's plan to force President Tsao-Kun, against whom he is so bitter (TiME, Oct. 22), out of office...