Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jere Cadoret '49 of Scranton, Pennsylvania; Robert Carswell '49 of Brooklyn, New York; Ernest Frank Chase, Jr. '50 of Cambridge; Melvin Abbott Conant, Jr. '46 of Cambridge; Burton Spencer Dreben '49, of St. Louis; Alan Howard Friedman '49 of Brooklyn, New York York; John Henry Hagan, Jr. '49 of Port Chester, New York; Richard Haven '50 of Welfeboreo, New Hampshire; John William James '50 of Birghton: Richard Paul Janaor '49, of Medford; Edward Ellsworth Jones '49 of Buffalo, New York; Alvin Kahn '49 of Upper Montclair, New Jerscy; Louis Frederick Klein, Jr. '49 of West Roxbury; Saul Kravetz...
...port of Callao, the "coke" capital of Peru, the vice is out in the open. Hundreds of peddlers, many of whom are their own best customers, offer a variety of items ranging from the plain leaves to pichicato or la diosa blanca (the white goddess), the drug in its refined form. Snuffing up a pinch of the powder in full view of passers-by last week, one old peddler brazenly solicited customers: "The only danger is that the wind will blow the pichicato away, that...
Ralston Crawford wrote that his abstraction of a Hawaiian fishing port, Kewalo, showing two or three slices of plane geometry and a porthole, simply reflected his "interest in finding and expressing ... a bit of order." He seemed to be on safe enough ground there...
...thought that Fido, when completely housebroken and tied in with other landing aids (G.C.A. and I.L.S.), would do its job. In the "approach zone" to the airport, it could raise a 75-ft. ceiling to 400 ft., permitting landings when the airport would otherwise be closed in. When the port has been fogbound, airliners have had to land 100 miles away at Palmdale, at an extra cost of $8 to $10 a passenger. Since Fido will bring airliners in for as little as $1.50 a passenger, the five airlines underwriting nearly half its $842,000 cost figure that it will...
...working in an office aboard Nelson's old flagship Victory) has tried to chart a sounder course. His seamanship may be better and his course truer, but when the voyage ends he has made the same port where other biographers have tied up. The Nelson who strides down the gangplanks of The Durable Monument is less legendary and more human than the Nelson of earlier biographies, but he is still the great captain of Britain's long and memorable naval history...