Word: el
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cost of maintaining a mandate was counted by the French in Syria when, for the fourth successive August, El Atrash Pasha, so-called Sultan of the Jebel Druzy area to the south of Damascus, bordering on the Arab State of Transjordania, attacked French native troops, inflicting upon them a severe defeat...
...venture to offer the opinion . . . that the qualities and character of Abd-el-Krim and his associates are formidably high, as high as those of Mustapha Kemal Pasha and his associates; and that any underestimation of their force would be fatal to the European course in North Africa...
...India. At the end of a year he returned, wrote a voluminously illustrated book entitled The Elephant and How to Shoot Him. The Frenchman went to Le Jardin des Plantes at Paris, observed the elephant, made friends with his keeper and in six weeks time wrote Les Amours des Eléphants. The German studied all the books and documents written on the elephant, then wrote a work in three volumes, entitled An Introduction to the Study of the Elephant. The Russian retired to his garret, drank quantities of vodka, numerous samovars of tea, produced a small volume : The Elephant...
...ship had been gone from port. *Dr. Beebe's statement was broad, unscientific. Doubtless the Arcturus did not go far enough south to find the Humboldt Current. A report of Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History last spring (TIME, April 13) indicated that El Niño, a warm current from the north which encounters the Humboldt off the coast of Peru about Christmas time, appeared a trifle behind schedule last winter but in unusual volume and southward reach...
Many electric refrigerator companies are already in the field. In addition to the independents - Frigidaire, Nizer, Serv-el and Kelvinator, the Delco Light (General Motors subsidiary), the Savage Arms (makers of rifles and electric washing machines) and the General Electric Co. are also manufacturing the new electric refrigerators. That there is room for all seems likely, since there are 14,000,000 homes in this country wired for electricity, with 5,000 a year additional being wired each year...