Word: portes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while waiting for Bowles to make port and make up his mind, Senator McMahon himself passed the lofty hint that it would be a shame for Chester Bowles to waste his abilities outside of Washington. The hint would be passed to Skipper Bowles not long after his boat docked...
...huge area of Bikini lagoon rise with lightning-like speed and in boiling violence. LSM 60 vanished in the twinkling of an eye. The 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas (the oldest surviving P.S. dreadnaught, dating from 1910), was next nearest the detonation point. She flopped over on her port side and was immediately swallowed...
Boundaries. Again the man in possession called the tune. From Finland, Russia is to get the warm water port of Petsamo and a lease on the Baltic naval base at Porkala; from Rumania, 79,300 square miles of Bessarabia. Other shifts in the Balkans give Transylvania back to Rumania, southern Dobruja to Bulgaria. The British and French gain at the expense of Italy: the Dodecanese Islands go to British-controlled Greece; the communes of Briga and Tenda and other bits of the Italian Alps go to France. But Italy is allowed to keep the South Tyrol over Austrian protest. Trieste...
Died. Paul Rosenfeld, 56, author (Port of New York), music and art critic, a guiding spirit of the American literary renaissance of the 1920s, founder (with Van Wyck Brooks and Waldo Frank) of the "little magazine" Seven Arts, early champion of modernist Composers Stravinsky, Copland, Milhaud; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Activities were suspended in 1942 because of the war, but informal service teams competed each autumn with contingents from French and English ships in port. Last year regular Varsity and Freshman teams played full schedules again...