Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arriving that same month from Great Britain, as well as two new units from Italy, bringing the Rumanian Navy to four destroyers, nine gunboats, three submarines, a fine Danube River flotilla. Tashaul, to be completed by 1941, will be 30 times as big as Constantsa, Rumania's biggest port, will be defended by heavy artillery purchased from Germany, will have both a naval and commercial port, will dock the largest ships...
...Libya they threaten Egypt. Off the coast of Asia Minor they have a naval base at Leros in that happy hunting ground of submarines-the Aegean. The master stroke of recent Italian history was the seizure of Albania. For between Albania's capital of Tirana and the Greek port of Salonika there is a trough, along which Italian troops could move to intercept a Franco-British thrust into the Balkans...
...Interstate Commerce Commission approved the merger of the Kansas City Southern and the Louisiana & Arkansas railroads last May, made possible an integrated mid-continent system extending from Kansas City to Shreveport, La., and Port Arthur, Texas...
...baby was born-drifted into a love affair with Lillie's young aunt without losing his belief that he was an honorable Virginia gentleman. Meanwhile, he was a hero-whipping his troops into superb order, disciplining them ruthlessly, winning their admiration, leading them into carnage at Port Hudson and damning the cowardly political generals who got sick on the eve of battles. But when Lillie discovered his deception, the only good impulse in his "emphatic and volcanic nature" disappeared. Plodding Captain Colburne saved the family in a raid, avoided in embarrassment the wiles of Lillie's aunt, finally...
Significance. Strangest fact about Miss Ravenel's Conversion is that it has been forgotten for so long. Battle scenes like the storming of Port Hudson are superior to those of Stephen Crane; the humor, bewilderment and passion of Miss Lillie make Hawthorne's and Cooper's damsels seem moral abstractions. Although, in its 466 pages, the book sometimes seems labored, and antiquated asides slow down its fast story, De Forest's wit picks it up, springs out in the plain talk of soldiers, his comments on the appallingly dull conversations of people in love...