Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crossing the finish in 6:42. After the first twenty strokes, the beat was lowered to a long powerful thirty-two, and the varsity pulled ahead of the others steadily. With magnificent poise and an easy swing to their oars, the varsity showed up beautifully even though the port list caused by the wind threw them off balance a little and made the port oars struggle a little at both ends of the stroke...
...Free City of Danzig, ostensibly governed by Poland and the League of Nations, is Poland's No. 2 port. It handles two-thirds the tonnage of nearby, all-Polish Gdynia. For four years Danzig has been run by a German Nazi Government. For Germany to take Danzig would be, politically, like the Italians taking Albania. The question that made Danzig a birthday box with a bomb in it was: how much more grabbing will the "Peace Front" permit the Axis...
...five position has been Coach Team Bolles' biggest problem Wait Kernan, four man last spring has been switched to starboard to fill the vacancy caused by Gardiner's graduation. Finishing far out to port, consistently catching late and missing water, Kernan remains the question mark of the Bolles boat...
...Dick and Harry may, if they wish, declare themselves candidates for the Presidency of France. Last week, on the eve of election day, a perennial named Lop popped up with an infallible secret formula for peace, which he refused to reveal unless elected. A druggist from the small fishing port of Honfleur arrived at Versailles covered with medals, brandishing a pistol, demanding admittance to the Palace to make a speech on his qualifications. A third was an old-timer with sweeping grey mustaches, fiery eyes and the extraordinary name of Monsieur Cochon...
...Burgos radio at 2:20 p. m. on March 29 that the Spanish Civil War had officially ended. His troops had occupied Madrid, Valencia, Ciudad Real, Cuenca, Jaén, Albacete-almost without resistance. Italian planes from Majorca had made a last bombing trip over Gandia, British-controlled Mediterranean port. A few anarchist soldiers were still putting up a feeble resistance in isolated districts and clean-up campaigns were bound to continue for some time. But, broadly speaking, Generalissimo Franco was right: the war was over and for the first time in 984 days Spain had peace...