Word: ets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between Abd-el-Krim, "Sultan" of the Riffs, and the French (TIME, May 11, et seq.) continued...
...applied to (and received permission from) the Council of Ambassadors for an increase of 3,000 men; but, owing to the opposition of Yugoslavia, Greece and Rumania, the increase was not permitted until Apr. 10 of this year. Shortly after occurred the Sveti Kral bomb outrage (TIME, Apr. 27 et seq.). Bulgaria petitioned the Council for more troops, received permission to raise another 7,000 and maintain them during the pleasure of the Council...
King Boris, who does not believe in capital punishment, who had heretofore never approved a death sentence in his life, decided last week that the recent bomb outrage in the Sveti Krai Cathedral (TIME, Apr. 21 et seq.) merited the supreme sentence, signed three death warrants. At 8 o'clock in the morning, while low, gray clouds were chased lazily by a warm breeze, 30,000 people assembled in a meadow under Mount Vitosna on the outskirts of Sofia. Before them were three white gibbets, surrounded by a strong force of soldiers...
...great crowd rose shouting for Nurmi, the incomparable, the undefeatable, who once ran the mile in 4:10 2/5, who has innumerable times defeated Willie Ritola, Joie Ray (TIME, July 28, Jan. 19 et seq.)-a Nurmi like the After, of the patent-medicine advertisements. While he ran, they sat voiceless, staring at a Nurmi whose legs churned up and down, whose shoulders rolled, whose chest heaved-one who unmistakably resembled that unhappy journeyman of the piles, hookworm, gallstones, liver complaint, kidney trouble, Bright's disease, lost manhood-poor Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron...
After the final retreat of Professor Bangs, order was only restored when Registrar John R. Ellis put in his appearance and with threats of probation called upon members of the Freshman class privatim et seriatim to restore peace at once...