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Word: portly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Juan, Puerto Rico, his first U. S. port of call. Skipper Baker found that he had to register his Oriental So Fong, pay $2,200 duty before continuing on the last leg of his dream-come-true voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Businessman's Dream | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

HONG KONG-Chinese press dispatches from Amoy reported today that the Chinese forces defending the great Fukien port city were prepared to burn it to the ground before surrendering it to the Japanese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...tons) commercial ship ever constructed on U. S. ways, the largest in the world with electric propulsion. Last week, when the California tied up at Pier 61, Manhattan, near her idle sisters, Pennsylvania and Virginia, it was the first time the three vessels had ever been in port together, the last time any one of them would slip a hawser for Panama Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Panama Pacific Out | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Suddenly a green light appeared off the port bow. And the Vagabond, who at times is a timid soul, thought of the liquor that he had proudly extracted from Halifax without paying the Canadian tax. He turned off the running lights and headed the ship slowly up into the wind. But almost immediately the green light turned into red and green and the black form of a cost guard cutter came out full against the sky. It steamed closer, and came alongside. In a queer voice the Vagabond tried to be nonchalant. "Bound for Marblehead," he called. "Leaving Bar Harbor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...Father," the sale to Turkey was sanctioned, was even approved by the U. S. State Department. The Nazis rather crudely complicated things when a court order temporarily restrained the boat from passing into Turkish hands, but last week the Savarona was ready to leave Hamburg for her new home port, Istanbul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Turks to Atatilrk | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

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