Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Senegal they pointed the bright tip of the Nungesser-Coli at the heart of the ocean, determined to pierce it from St. Louis, Bengal, to Port Natal, Brazil. Deftly they parried sly thrusts of gusty wind. Persistently they pointed their rapier at the mark. After an 18-hour battle, the Atlantic had been run through. The bright tip of the Nnngesser-Coli emerged over the night-shrouded field at Natal. France had had satisfaction...
Commander L. S. Stewart, of the Naval Science Department, declared that the cruise was a complete success, and that it will be repeated next year, with a foreign port, such as Hamilton, Bermuda, or Halifax, in view as a destination. A similar cruise was held on the west coast, where the cruiser Tennessee took students from western universities through a short period of practical application of the theory propounded through the year in the lecture rooms...
...Tomlinson is coming to the United States for the first time. In 1910, his boat "The Capella", stopped in a port of Florida, but immediately continued to England...
...Pearson, cried: " 'What ship is that?' From the Richard came the reply: 'I can't hear what you say.' 'Answer at once,' shouted Captain Pearson, 'or I shall fire.' . . . The Richard's bo'sun leaned out of a port. 'Fire, and be damned to you.' " For a long time guns flashed in the night and the great dark sails, punched by cannon balls, slipped down from the spars and let an unshadowed silver brighten the noisy, bloodstained decks. Finally Jones took Pearson's sword and said...
Charles Moravia, writing from the Penitentiary of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in your issue of Aug. 15, states that his letter was smuggled out. "That's Haiti under American rule," states this Negro editor of Le Temps...