Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime chief of Rio de Janeiro police, laid down his arms. Colonel Herculaneo Carvalho headed a temporary military government for Sao Paulo state. No accurate casualty lists were published on either side. For Brazil as a whole the civil war has had one beneficial result: The blockade of the port of Santos boosted coffee prices in the world market nearly...
...Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the 282-year-old bones of D'Aulnay Charnisay who ruled Acadia "as if he were King"' after he had driven Charles de La Tour from the country, were found by excavators and reburied last week under the steps of the Port Royal Church as his will requested...
...June 1929, 15 months before Han became Governor of Shantung. Chefoo was taken by War Lord Liu Chen-nien, who should later have considered himself subordinate to Governor Han of Shantung, Chefoo being merely a Shantung port...
...last summer War Lord Liu was popular with U. S. bluejackets whose ships lay anchored off his port. At the cry (in Chinese) of "The fleet's in!'', smart Liu extorted $100,000 mex. from Chefoo establishments most apt to be patronized by sailors. Pocketing perhaps half this money, Liu nevertheless spent at least $50.000 mex. to improve Chefoo's police force, to push his superb street paving program and to encourage his new Institute of Silk Culture. Liu, frankly a bandit who worked up into the roles of petty statesman and local philanthropist, had only one real fault during...
...stout cable. When he hauled it back to the deck of his tug Freedom, the bathysphere was full of water under pressure such that it blew the lid's bolt across the deck after it was loosened. There was a tiny leak in a port gasket. Any surface creature inside would have been crushed to jelly...