Word: bases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tangier, the chief port of Morocco, an international city at once quaint and modern, and strategically important because directly opposite the British base at Gibraltar, became once again last week the subject of contention among the nations. Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera of Spain set the pot of contention a-bubbling by despatching to Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and the U. S., a declaration that the control of Tangier by Spain is necessary to prevent the importation of contraband munitions by Moroccans rebellious against the regime of Spain in Spanish Morocco. The Powers to whom this declaration...
...From San Francisco we shall continue to Honolulu, Guam, Yap, Manila, Ambon, Banda, Bima and at last arrive at our final destination, Surobaya, our great naval base which protects our rubber, tea and spice trade in the East Indies...
...freckled lad in his teens kissed their mother as she read the telegram. Mrs. Langley had reason to be proud. She had won the Republican Congressional primary, has no opposition for election to the seat lost when her hus band resigned. She told the press: "While I did not base my campaign on vindication and sympathy - that was proved two years ago by the re-election of Mr. Langley - at the same time I feel that it is a vindication of us. I based my campaign on my own fitness for office...
Going home, Mr. Adams pondered chicle's possibilities as a commercial rubber, but his subsequent attempts at vulcanizing (baking to harden) it, all failed. He tried to utilize it as a base for false teeth, but that failed. With $35 capital, Mr. Adams founded Adams & Son, chewing gum manufacturers, which merged in 1899 into the American Chicle Company, capital of about $2,000,000, producers of sticks of "health-giving, circulation-building, teeth-preserving, digestion-aiding, brain-refreshing, jaw-developing, soul-tuning chewing...
...Springfield. Ball players of Peoria and Springfield, Ill., in the "Three Eye" league (Indiana, Illinois, Iowa) slumped into their showers one evening last week, footsore and weary. They had had a terrible afternoon. Peoria batsmen had knocked 27 safe hits, trudged around the bases to score 23 runs. And Springfield batsmen had made 22 safe hits; had frequently been obliged to take their bases on balls; had worn their cleats down to buttons scoring 33 runs. Pitchers had come and gone with kaleidoscopic effect, tiring the eyes. The outfielders of the two teams had chased, collectively, ten home runs, four...