Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1923, the U. S. S. Milwaukee lay in the harbor of Pago-Pago, second port of a long shakedown cruise to Suva, Sydney, Rabaul, Nouméa, etc. Coming on deck that morning I heard the engine roar of one of the biplanes she carried, and as I stepped over the hatch coaming I saw the plane just beginning to lift from the thrust of the catapult. Almost immediately, from an elevation of, perhaps, two hundred feet, she fell into the bay. Thus ended man's first brief flight in Samoa...
...glory of Genova is in the past when with Venice she was the leading port and trading city. Now for the tourist she stands as a convenient breaking place in the journey to Florence and southern Italy. Yet is it not for the past that most of us come to Europe at all? The chief contemporary contribution which will interest the tourist a thousand years hence will be found principally in America...
...Pirates." Rightist warships blockading the port of Bilbao, and keeping off British ships which were trying to deliver food which the Leftists had bought in England, were "pirates" in the eyes of London which ordered His Majesty's mighty warship Hood to the scene. Excitement over this slumped when the British Cabinet, covertly favorable to Franco, advised British ships not to try to enter Bilbao as the harbor might have been mined. This ingenious supposition enabled His Majesty's Government to achieve much the same blockade objective as that of the "pirates" without being in the least piratical...
...Green's Pepper. Lines were drawn then & there between widow and sister, never good friends, for a legal fight that promises to be historic. To his little office above a grocery store in small Port Henry (pop. 2,040) came a bigger estate case than Surrogate Harry E. Owen had ever thought of in his 20 years on the bench. As administrator he appointed Essex County's youthful District Attorney, bulky, bespectacled Thomas W. McDonald...
...efforts, offers its credentials for admission to the thin company of cinema immortals. It is during the We're Here's race to Gloucester that the interwoven stories come to their climax. After a night of reckless seamanship, both ships are standing clear, close-hauled on the port tack, all sails set and drawing, with the We're Here to the windward and astern of Jenny Cushman. Finding herself being overhauled, the Jenny Cushman craftily comes about, pointing across the We're Here's bows. By sea law, the ship on the starboard tack having...