Word: portes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paderewski retold the story delightfully with one or two minor variations, such as the Englishman taking his biscuits, his port wine and his pipes. He said he was going to follow his compatriot and discuss the Polish question- but without including the elephant...
...foot for every day the ship had been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...
...little by little became a recognized expert on Near Eastern affairs. He was nominated as negotiator of the Italo-Turkish peace treaty which ended the war of 1911-12. In 1922, Premier Giolitti appointed him Governor of the colony of Tripoli, where he did invaluable work in modernizing the port of Tripoli town. When Fascism appeared, he wholeheartedly embraced it and became one of Mussolini's faithful henchmen...
...Government official or employe convicted of pumping overboard any oil or sludge in the harbors of coastal water of the U. S. However, Congress does not stipulate by what means these same officials or employes are to prevent their ships from sinking in case ot protracted stays in one port...
Chungkiang. Alarming stories (unconfirmed) came from Chungkiang, a Yangtsze-kiang port. In general, the situation was said to be beyond control. Britishers were stoned and otherwise assaulted. The British Consul was forced to flee. Japanese gunboats were expected...