Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Filipinos already independent. Foreigners in the eyes of the U. S. immigration law, they were entitled to a quota of 50 emigrants to the U. S. per year. To grant immigration visas, a U. S. vice consul was appointed to Manila just as if it were any other foreign port. Named to the post was Henry B. Day (Yale '27) who until last week was Vice Consul in Hongkong...
...Pinchot, whose exact political position lies camouflaged somewhere East of Democracy and West of the G. O. P. Nobody in Pennsylvania has ever succeeded in orienting the Pinchots. They have been borderland cases for years. Governor Pinchot's old Pennsylvanian family comes from Milford, across the Delaware from Port Jervis, N. Y. For generations their interests have lain cross-country and down the Hudson toward New York rather than down the Delaware toward Philadelphia. Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's money came from an old New York fortune. Snobbish Philadelphia hates the Pinchots because their social life centres in Manhattan...
...mapped region of the inhabited globe." Its mountainous valleys are perhaps the most fertile in southern Arabia. Its almost deserted seaport of Mocha has become a synonym for coffee the world around. Coffee is still grown on Yemen's mountains but what little is exported goes through the port of Hodeida...
...none over 29, had considerable edge over their challengers, whose combined ages were almost twice as great. The U. S. team went into the sabre event leading 34-to-30. Sabre had been generally conceded to the home team. But to their amazement, Captain Guy L. G. Harry, a port wine merchant, led a slashing British attack which took four of the first five bouts, brought the visitors into the lead 38-to-36. Then the U. S. team rallied and brought the score to 44-to-42. Dr. John R. Huffman, Yale graduate student in chemistry who lost...
...jokes all in order, Edward of Wales rode down London's Birdcage Walk one night last week to Wellington Barracks to drink a sherry apéritif, eat a dinner with the officers of the Welsh Guards of which he is colonel. With the walnuts, the port was set before him and passed clockwise. Everybody rose to drink the King's health in port, after which it was permissible to smoke...