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Word: portes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adventurers who platted the town on the banks of the Ohio River were certain it would be a seat of great farms, a port for the burgeoning West, and a center of riches and influence. They gave its streets such proud names as Washington and Maryland and they called the village America. In the 1820s it grew fast. Then shifting sands moved the river channel and its commerce away, and a terrible epidemic swept the town. By 1835 its brave dream was dying; in the century after that, America, Ill. almost vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Christmas in America | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Richard C. Arnold, his successor, and Serologist Ad Harris. For the first few months after treatment, the seamen had been kept ashore, and on call. But for almost two years of wartime service they were all over the bounding main and in many a disease-ridden liberty port...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cure | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hellish Treatment | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Port Moresby, bewildered by their inability to make a happy marriage in all oppressive world, drop their martinis and set off to North Africa with an infantile friend named Tunner whose function is to annoy both protagonists and sleep with harassed, ambivalent...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...North Africa the happy trio is joined by Mrs. Lyle and her "pale and simple" son Eric who alternates between sleeping with his dominating mother and stealing from his fellow travelers. When Port dies from typhoid in a likely French Arab outpost, Kit wanders off into the desert where she is taken in by two Arab traveling salesmen whose actions prove that traveling salesman are the same the world over. Kit finally escapes from her harem when she finds that her Arab lover has to spend a few nights with some of his other wives. She then takes up with...

Author: By Robert J. Blinken, | Title: Weird Ones in the Desert | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

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