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Word: el (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been intending to convene her Parliament on Oct. 6. It was hoped that before Oct. 6: 1) M. Briand could negotiate the Security Pact; 2) M. Caillaux might properly negotiate a debt settlement with the U. S.; 3) Maréchal Petain would plant a decisive blow in Abd-el-Krim's midRiff. Now France is less sanguine of the immediate success of her three champions. The Government has postponed the opening of Parliament until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Postponement | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

...narrow beach below the high cliffs of the promontory at one side of the bay. The cliffs were scaled and taken with little loss, apparently, to either side, since there was very little fighting. No immediate offensive was begun from the new position. Ajdir, the capital of Abd-el-Krim, is probably the objective of the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Morocco | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...West, as everyone knows, there is no "organized" baseball. But the towns of Fort Bayard (New Mexico), El Paso (Texas), Juarez (Mexico) and Douglas (Ariz.) have teams which play in the Frontier League., Last year Chase went to Douglas, played on the team. The local Chambermen of Commerce told him to get better players and offered to ' pay for them. He sent for Weaver and Gandil. The Chambermen began to pay out $10,000 a month; the three unfrocked players began to win games for Douglas. Chase plays center field; Gandal is at first; Weaver at shortstop is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Douglas | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...last few week intensive offenses before the winter sets in is to be placed on the younger shoulders of Marshal Petain and General Naulin. On the fate of their efforts depends whether or not it will be necessary to carry on the war next year or whether Abd-el-Krim can be decisively beaten this fall. Complete success on their part would be a great triumph, almost impossible, for Abd-el-Krim has organized the mountain fastness to hold them off until foul winter weather comes to his aid. An incident in the fighting in Morocco last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: In Morocco | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...again at other cocks, conquistadors. Programs, chiefly of native and Italian opera, rustle. In La Colon's unique gallery, sacred to unattended women, the fair sit sequestered, safe. In the huge "mourning boxes," equipped with iron screens, the rich lounge in privilege. One can peer out, not in. El telon (curtain) rises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In St. Louis | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

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