Word: crescents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Polish Ambassador was always invited to the various ceremonies of the Turkish Court. During the 123 years in which the Polish State was nonexistent, Turkey was a warm friend of the Poles, many of whom settled in European Turkey and fought at different times for the Star and Crescent. All these manifestations of friendship to the contrary, perpetual treaties of peace are unadulterated diplomatic chicanery; on Sept. 12, 1683, Vienna was saved from the Turk by John Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-1696); the future may hold an analogous situation...
...Clemente islands, off the coast near Los Angeles, and at San Diego, Ensenada, Mexico and other Lower California posts, the sky was obscured by heavy clouds practically throughout the eclipse. At Los Angeles the clouds parted just long enough for the watching thousands to see a thin crescent of shadow on the disk in the early phase. At Mexico City the clouds were more polite, and a good view was obtained, though as the Mexican capital was just outside the belt of totality, with an obscuration of 99.4%, none of the major expeditions had stationed themselves there. There...
Caliph Abdul Medjid, as a private citizen, lowered the Crescent to half-mast on the state yacht and palaces. Flags of the Allied warships on the Bosphorus and in the Dardanelles, all flew their flags at half-mast...
...Yale 5 West. Va. 1 Yale 3 Pennsylvania 4 Yale 6 Brown 4 Yale 4 B. C. 13 Yale 8 Lafayette 3 Yale 0 Holy Cross 4 Yale 5 Brown 0 Yale 6 Colgate 8 Yale 8 Cornell 5 Yale 3 Georgetown 11 Yale 5 Princeton 14 Yale 4 Crescent A. C. 6 Yale 12 Washington 3 Yale 5 Princeton...
...visitors started the scoring in the opening inning and forced the Blue to use four pitchers in an attempt to stem the attack. Hartnett's wild pitching in the seventh resulted in two more runs for the Crescent nine, but Yale answered with a pair of runs in their half of the inning. With the score 6 to 2 against them in the final session, the Yale batters made a last stand, Captain Eddy knocking out a three-bagger and scoring two runs. The side was retired, however, without further scoring...