Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announcement by the Trustees of the Dowse Institute of a course of five lectures, by Professor Kittredge at Sanders Theatre on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port. He began life with scarcely any schooling; was apprenticed to his trade as a boy, and continued in it until his death at the age of 84; living, unmarried, in rooms above his shop, over whose door a carved lamb was set, not to suggest his inclination to fleece...
...three subchasers, located by means of their listening devices, a submarine away out at sea west of Brest and traced her so successfully that the Parker was able to drop a barrage of sixteen depth bombs around her, injuring her so severely that she was obliged to return to port. This was the famous U-53 which sunk our destroyer, the Jacob Jones, and was so successful in attacking merchant vessels, though she was not at this time in command of Hans Rose, whose efficiency made her famous...
...proportion of the through freight rate which the trunk lines have assigned to the New England railroads is lower than that accorded the railroads which feed the other Atlantic ports. And this accounts for the recent trouble with one of the finest terminals of the railroad system--the port of Boston, which is broad, "deep chested", protected, and well furnished with excellent docking facilities; and what is still more in its favor from the point of view of the steamship companies, it is some three hundred miles, one day, nearer Europe than is New York, the nearest of the other...
...some time there has been a hearing going on before the Interstate Commerce Commission, in which Boston has been trying to get an equal differential with that of the other ports. The result of this hearing is in doubt, but it is self-evident that Boston will never become a great port until ships coming there can get return cargoes; and until Boston has a differential equal to that of the other ports. It will never have goods for export on its wharves...
...trading class, was springing up again. The cause of this re-birth may be traced to Constantinople, the head of the Byzantine Empire, which had not suffered from the Moslems. The traders from this city were instrumental in founding Venice, and Bruges, in Flanders, for cargoes reached the latter port by being transported across Russia to the Nieva River, into the Baltic, and from there to Flanders...