Word: ported
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy, visiting the tomb of his parents at Florence. However, as soon as George II felt himself to be really King and had $200,000 in his pocket, he emphatically challenged General Kondylis' plans, proposed instead that he sail around Italy, land at the Yugoslav port of Split and visit, en route to Athens, his cousin, the Regent of Yugoslavia, Prince Paul. Nervously the British Foreign Office hinted to George II that there was no need to heighten the British-Italian tension by making an issue of visiting a country where his parents' bodies lie. Dictator Kondylis...
Oceanographic Institution, was back in its snug port after a month at sea, bringing a rich haul of new knowledge about the submerged land off the Atlantic Coast - harvest of an idea that the chunky, 50-year-old geology professor at Princeton University and his associates had been working on for three years. Dr. Field had no thought of learning anything new about the surface topography of the sea bottom. A great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what...
...TIME must be nautical-term-wise in reporting the vantage point from which "The Commander-in-Chief" views Navy sham action, why pick on "No. 2 barbette?" Why not have the President suspended from port-aft-quarter-boom-kingpost in a boatswain's-chair or some other unlikely position...
Story began with a tantalizing little dispatch from Honolulu fortnight ago to the effect that J. Walter Doyle, Collector of Customs of that port, had returned from a trip to Howland, Baker and Jarvis Islands in mid-Pacific, had refused to allow his subordinates to inspect his luggage on the ground that he had not been outside the U. S. This gesture was supposed to clinch U. S. title to three tiny specks of land spang on the equator and almost midway between the Hawaiian Islands, Australia and New Zealand...
Last year onetime Representative Hogan was indicted on a charge of extorting $725 from two would-be plumbers after promising to fix them up with city licenses. Last April Federal authorities turned him up for another piece of business. As confidential clerk to the Collector of the Port of New York, they charged, he had taken $100 apiece from three Italians who had entered the U. S. illegally, needed some political fixing to get their first citizenship papers...