Word: dungeness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...record time. Then French officers discovered that their airmen, who had hastily made for them the only available maps, had mapped too optimistically. The French lines, when exactly plotted, proved to be a couple of miles short of the advance that had been claimed. A few piles of scattered dung and slots, which had been "captured" and announced to be "Aknout,' was discovered to be something and somewhere else. None the less, the recent French advance topped heights which form the watershed of Morocco. From now on they and the torrential rains of autumn will be moving down toward...
...Guano, bird dung, valuable because of its nitrate content for fertilizer. When the rains came, the nitrates, escaping as ammonia, left the guano agriculturally impotent...