Word: camels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago the U. S. lawyer and one-time Interstate Commerce Commissioner, James S. Harlan, saw a camel race in the Sahara and thought it was great sport. Why not a Grand Prix of the Sahara? he asked his friends in Africa, and with their encouragement picked out a course, put up prizes: 2,500 francs to the winner and some gold jewelry (no tribesman is much interested in money by itself); second prize, 1,500 francs and silver jewelry; third prize 600 francs and a certificate. During his foreign tour, Mr. Harlan died, and since on his deathbed...
...thoroughbred racing camel can run 150 mi. a day, carry a pack load three days without water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right...
...HAMLET HOOVER?Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel...
...POLONIUS WICKERSHAM ?By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed...
...performed the feat described in his book My March on Timbuktu. Starting down the left bank of the River Niger on Dec. 27. 1893, he marched and skirmished 813 kilometres (504 mi.) in 48 days, entered on Feb. 12, 1894 "The Town of Timbuktu, the Meeting Place of Camel and Canoe,"† Steady promotion carried Joseph Joffre by 1911 to the post of Chief of the French General Staff "at only 59." What he called "Plan 17" was soon ready. He merely pulled out and unfolded it when Germany declared war. As the German armies advanced, Joffre tried to outflank...