Word: counts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entirely one of conjecture. That country, to protect its communications with India, has a prime interest to serve in bottling up the Mediterranean Sea, which it does from Gibraltar; Tangier opposite, under international control, being "everybody's dog is nobody's dog," and therefore does not count. Whatever Sir Austen may have said, it seems a logical deduction to suppose that he aimed at increasing Britain's hold on the Mediterranean and possibly did offer Spain much needed tariff concessions in return for her aid in strengthening the British position in Tangier...
Toward Upper Canada crept another people, settlers from the older, lower provinces of Canada neither English-speaking nor English-thinking. Opposite the Detroit River, one of them (the Count de Cadillac) founded a trading station. French countrymen followed, settling small farms, laboring in lumber camps, infiltrating the zealously English Province of Ontario with French blood & customs...
...handsome chap, her childhood lover, appears suddenly, conducts himself in a manner to provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material for occasional "cat fests...
After being held scoreless for three periods by the Exeter Academy eleven on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon, the University first year football team got under way in the final period to score two touchdowns and win by a 13 to 0 count. Both Freshman scores came as a result of long runs. R. S. Ogden, former Milton, player, who was elevated to first string ranking last week, intercepted one of the schoolboy aerial attempts and dashed 65 yards for one of these touchdown, while the other was scored by W. T. Gilligan on a short line thrust after...
...pendulum has swung back, and already a popular magazine of large circulation has chronicled the exploits of Von Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...