Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferment. Japan last week scarcely looked like the proper setting for such portentous words. The cherry blossoms were advancing northward through the islands. The first white buds had appeared at Kagoshima, Japan's southernmost and warmest port. Slowly they had taken all of Kyushu Island and, crossing the narrow straits, had established a beachhead on the rocky coast of Honshu. The blossoms last week sprouted near the Kure dockyards and on a thousand drowsy islands dotting the Inland...
...first time in ten years, Britain's Royal Academy held a banquet last week to celebrate the opening of its annual summer show, and broadcast the traditionally stately doings over BBC. Amid the clinking of port glasses and the deep, decorous buzz of voices, radio listeners heard the sonorous accents of the toastmaster calling upon His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and others for appropriate little speeches. At last, R.A. President Sir Alfred Munnings rose to speak, and almost broke up the party...
...struck across in a vast envelopment on both sides of Nanking. One field army under General Chen Keng took Tikang, 80 miles southwest and upriver from the Nationalist capital. Other forces under General Chen Yi poured across 35 and 65 miles east and downriver from Nanking, snatched the river port of Chinkiang and the river fort at Kiangyin, whose big guns were silent...
...Airport and flown to Louisville. With the big race only twelve days away, Kentuckians were still waiting to be shown that Olympia could carry his dizzy speed over the mile and a quarter Derby route. He also had to prove that he was a better horse than Old Rock-port-and a couple of Kentucky sleepers, Johns Joy and Ky. Colonel...
This year Professor Albion has taught the Maritime History of the United States. He is the author of many books, including "Forests and Sea Power," "The Rise of the New York Port," and "Sea Lanes in Wartime." He has been on the Princeton faculty since...