Word: aegean
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...value. For 23 court days the prosecution and its corps of expert accountants wrestled with the problem of demonstrating to judge and jurors the financial intricacies of the Insull collapse. That job proved to be even more difficult than the long task of chasing Mr. Insull up & down the Aegean and practically shanghaiing him back to the U. S. for trial (TIME...
...bullet tore through the flesh of Lieut. Maunsell's shoulder. Crack!-Another shot got Surgeon Lieut. D. J. W. Robinson. He spun up, clutching his side, toppled overboard and disappeared. As the Turks kept on firing, wounded Lieut. Maunsell and the remaining British officer dived into the Aegean and swam for dear life toward Greece until picked up by other pleasure-bent Britons...
...Bulgaria, who had joined the Central Powers, received the terms of her punishment in the Treaty of Neuilly. Since she had lost much in the settlements closing the Balkan Wars, there was not much that could be lost territorially. Possibly the severest blow was the loss of her Aegean coast-line, with economic as well as political consequences. Never a wealthy state at any time, by the war and the peace treaty, Bulgaria was reduced in power, population, area, and resources to a point where she became one of the least important of the Balkan states...
...poured down at Marathon. To the right of the winding road, on hills where goats nibbled the brown grass, the rocks made sharp black shadows. To the left, a warm, slow spray varied the edge of the Aegean. Pheidippides, running toward Athens 22 mi. away, headed down the dusty road...
Next day as the Exilona was sloshing across the Aegean, Samuel Insull sat down in the saloon with his custodian, began to see the advantages of eating American meals in the company of Americans. Growing expansive over a sandwich he told tales of strange and unusual hardships among Turks and Greeks. To a passenger who laughingly remarked, "I would trade my money for yours," he retorted, "That's the greatest insult you could cast on me. I have repeatedly said I have sunk everything I had in my business and that's the truth." Once he grew gruff...