Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trip down, one of the pilots told an acquaintance, two cylinders of the port motor had repeatedly cut out. At times none of the motors of the old plane, once grounded by the Department of Commerce, had turned up enough revolutions to maintain altitude...
...Yorker who stroked the Oxford crew that won in 1923. Puzzled by the continued failure of their boat, old Oxonians last week fell back on the suggestion of feeding the oarsmen more than their usual rations of a pint and a half of ale and a glass of port daily for a month before the race, to reduce their "conviction of inferiority...
...overhead wires, tore down 500 yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...
...going to be a long earthquake. At 6:06 p. m. (Pacific Time) a second shudder ran under California's coastal apron, from the winter & summer colony at Santa Barbara to the port of San Diego, 200 mi. south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
...used only on formal occasion in port. The regular mess equipment is made (if beetleware, aluminum...