Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment later he saw that it was no small boat, but a submarine. The steamer quivered. She had run on the port side of the submarine just forward of the conning tower and had stove a deep hole into the undersea ship...
...fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 7) the Italian fleet went forth to war maneuvers. Last week the fleet went forth again to pick up the casualties. For when the ships had returned to port the Sebastiano Veniero, submarine, 213 ft. in length, 925 tons submerged displacement, carrying six torpedo tubes and two 4-pounders, built during the early part of the War, had not returned. She had been ordered to ambush the "enemy" off Sicily and when last seen had been proceeding to her post Destroyers, dirigibles, submarines were sent in search...
...Amoy, picturesque port of Fukien province, opposite the Japanese island of Formosa, local Chinese merchants expressed themselves as being weary of the boycott engineered by their compatriots. They instituted attempts to lift business from its paralytic cot, to open schools this month...
Maude. At Nome, Alaska, the schooner Maude made port after an absence of two years, then headed out again for San Francisco where her owner, Explorer Roald Amundsen of Norway, had instructed that she should be sold (TIME, Aug. 24). From Nome were relayed some of the adventures that had befallen the Maude during the months when she lay locked in ice-floes off East Cape, Siberia, first trying to drift up over the Pole, then trying to get home...
Next morning at 1 a.m. Armando Andre y Alvarado, owner of the newspaper El Dia was motoring home. Like Senor Govea he had been a vigorous opponent of the Machado administration. In fact Senor Andre, who was Captain of port police under the Zayas administration lost his job the day the Machado administration took office and on the same day began to attack the administration through El Dia. As he reached his home shortly after 1 a.m. last week, a white man and a Negro suddenly shot him down on the sidewalk. His murderers were sought...