Word: despatched
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...newspaper correspondent, writing from Wazzan behind the French lines, thus began his daily despatch on the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...Motors Corporation, said: "Ridiculous on their face, for General Motors has recently announced a new series of cars, which should be sufficient answer." Said Walter C. Teagle, oil President: "Insofar as it refers to the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, there is no basis in fact for the despatch...
...Helen Wills stepped out to despatch Miss Elizabeth Ryan in the women's finals. The court was juicy as buttered asparagus with a recent rainfall, a circumstance which boded ill for Miss Wills. Both players wore spiked shoes, but before the first set was six games old, Miss Ryan was taking off her shoes. The gallery giggled. She tried on a pair with soles of crape rubber. They skidded. She tried on a pair borrowed from William M. Johnston. The gallery tittered again. Miss Ryan removed her footwear altogether, began to scuttle about the court in stocking feet...
French forces in Morocco were said to rival kaleidoscopes in the diversity of their hues, varying from fairest white to darkest black. White Frenchmen from the North and olive Frenchmen from the South fight shoulder to shoulder with coffee, chocolate and black Annamites, Senegalese, Hindus, Algerians, Tunisians, and, as despatch most aptly put it "the mixed grill of the Foreign Legion...
...youth named Edward G. Chandler of the University of California won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship from Cranston Holman of Stamford, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Though no McLoughlin, he played the sort of bounding game that has characterized the players from his state- won with despatch. Two more Californians-G. Hillis, G. Stratford-took the doubles from a Yale team...