Word: portly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view of the above bit of Biblical maritime history, antiquarians have long been convinced that King Solomon in his years of splendor had a port on the Red Sea, but they did not know where it was. Last week Dr. Millar Burrows of Yale announced that the port had been found by explorations and excavations near Aqaba. The finder is Dr. Nelson Glueck, heading an expedition of the American School for Oriental Research. Aqaba is a town encircled by towering granite hills on a narrow gulf at the Red Sea's northern end. During the War it was captured...
...foreign intervention Forbes said, "it is primarily a Spanish War. The Italians and Germans have given a lot of aid to Franco and the Moors are an important port of the army, but wherever possible Spaniards have been enlisted and today I believe foreigners in the army are less than ten per cent...
...Federal salaries and bonds was given sharp impetus today when the Supreme Court, in two far-reaching decisions, broadened the Federal government's taxing powers. The decisions, reached by a split of the Court affirmed the right of the Federal government to impose income taxes upon employees of the port of New York Authority, a joint instrumentality of the States of New York and New Jersey, and affirmed the government's right to tax admissions to football games and other athletic contests sponsored by state universities...
...tall, weather-beaten Pennsylvanian, Cover has none of the dramatic fatalism of a movie test pilot. Cool and reliable, he was once an army flying instructor. When he was testing the DCi, the port engine almost died when the plane was only 50 ft. up. He calmly wheeled for a landing, missing a tree by feet. As the engine picked up he decided not to land, flew on for a successful test with the engine sputtering...
Fortnight ago, as the French liner Lafayette lay burning in a Havre drydock. the crew of the French liner Champlain was on strike in the same port. After midnight one night last week, two fires were discovered on the Champlain, one in a cabin, one in a linen locker. Both were quickly put out. A 22-year-old sailor named Joseph Salou, found in a companionway, was arrested. Sailor Salou confessed that he had started the fire in the cabin by dropping a cigaret. Said he: ''Overcome by realization of the enormity of my carelessness I tried...