Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your correspondent was probably thinking of bombardments which often take place of the weekly "souks" or markets of the tribes of the Oued el Abid, the only remaining zone inhabited by hostile Berbers north of the Atlas, at present surrounded on three sides by our military posts. This is a long, mountainous valley between the Middle and the High Atlas ranges and some two hundred and fifty miles southwest of the Riff...
Mines, mining, and matters connected thereto, filled the years frim 1902 to 1914 and took him around the world and back. Like the index of an atlas reads the list of countries in which he lived and worked during these years: Australia, Belgium, Borneo, Burma, Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Malay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, and South Africa...
...Atlas and Eva. The best part of this play was the name, and that was changed on the eve of the opening. Under the fascinating title of The Nebblepredders it is reasonable to suppose that the incurably curious, a considerable group, would have patronized pasteboard peddlers.. But the reigning dynasty thought otherwise and just called it any old thing, spelled as above. The Nebblepredders were the family concerned?Pop Nebblepredder, Ma Nebblepredder, Herbie Nebblepredder, Eva Nebblepredder, Elmer Nebblepredder, Josie Nebblepredder?all Nebblepredders. A Nebblepredder, that is to say these Nebblepredders, were poor Nebblepredders. Their hope and true salvation...
...manner of the East, the conversations, held in the foothills of the Atlas mountains, begun by long and polite exchanges. Even then the point could not be broached directly. A long, a very long list of topics must be discussed before the word "ransom" could be even mentioned by inuendo. Thus the parley went on for some days...
Next day troops reported that the prisoners were being held, safe and more or less sound, "as prisoners of war," by one Si Hocine Bou Temga, terrifying tribal chief, at Brahim, high up in the Atlas Mountains. A rescue party set out through torrential rains that were covering the mountains with snow to bargain with the chief for the ransom of the prisoners...