Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cherbourg has no natural port, yet some 900 liners a year touch there, most of them unloading onto tenders. The town has protected them with an outside breakwater 27 mi. long, but slowly lost traffic to the great port of Havre up the coast. In 1926 the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce, fat with embarkation and debarka tion fees paid by U. S. tourists, began to carve out a real harbor with an inside breakwater and two deep-water piers. It raised a huge $2,500,000 Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City...
...away. This remarkable time advertised the fact that Cherbourg has already speeded up its boat-train service to Paris from 6½ to 4½ hr., will further speed it with Automotrices. President Lebrun's job last week was to open a new $8,000,000 deep water port and maritime station for France...
Fortunately the Chilean epidemic is typhus of a type milder than the type that sometimes scourges Europe. Over 100 Santiagoans had died last week, but hundreds were recovering when Valparaiso, chief port of Chile, clamored for protection. President Alessandri's typhus fight ers established delousing stations on all roads leading out of the capital under a presidential decree declaring a state of siege. At these barriers simple pedestrians and their clothing were thoroughly disinfected, not without loud protests. Wealthier Santiagoans passed through on certificates issued by their doctors...
...didst open for the three Magi a road to Thee by means of a Star, grant unto us, we beseech Thee, a journey prosperous and free from harm; that accompanied by Thy Holy Angel, we may arrive safely at our present destination and come at last to the port of eternal salvation, through Christ Our Lord, Amen...
Life on the Narcissus is complicated principally by Terry's appetite for whiskey. He cuts off pieces of the hawser and pawns them for liquor so that when Annie sets out to tow a schooner into port she is humiliated by finding that she has no rope. Young Alec, disgusted by his father's dipsomania, goes to work for a steamship company, manages to satisfy his mother's ambition by becoming captain of the company's sleekest passenger ship, the Glacier Queen. The day Alec completes his first voyage, Terry gets drunk on hair-tonic. Annie...