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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Krim. As the cavalcade wound through tortuous Riffian bridle paths, Frenchmen pondered the history of their captive. His fluent Spanish rose naturally to the lips of a Riffian born in easy circumstances, the son of a Judge, who until about 1917 served as a clerk in the Spanish Oficina Indigena (Bureau of National Activities) at Melilla and grew incensed at the shameless corruption of Spain's administration of northern Morocco under the protectorate convention...
...shrewdness characteristic of Krim betokened the born statesman who had summoned his brother M'hammed ben AbdEl Krim, unquestionably a born general, to lead the forces which they collected about them by intrigue among the Riffian chiefs between...
...another session, Porter R. Lee, director of the New York School of Social Works, announced that the perfect social worker had not yet been born. When he or she did arrive, the characteristics would be these: tact, cooperation, reliability, fair-mindedness, agreeability, poise, magnetism and a large sense of humor...
...everyone knows, Travis, an Australian, represented the U. S. in 1904, but Sweetser is the first U. S.-born golfer to loft over the championship hazard...
Professor Channing was born in 1856, received his A. B. degree from Harvard in 1878, and his master's and doctor's degrees...