Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are those who always love a dispute. Eagerly they parade their opinions until the front pages of the press sacrifice murders and politics for evolution and heresy trials. Since the time of Socrates men have delighted in being the "gadflies" of their states, their churches, their homes. Indeed, such "gadflies" have often been useful and helpful. Yet now, if the clear message of any religion can help order the confusion of mind so apparent everywhere, it is the duty of the ministers of that religion to cease their eternal warfare. Surely the time has come for the Protestant church...
...single goal for the University was made by Driggs early in the game, but was offset soon after the start of the second period by Steel for Amherst, who scored from a hard scrimmage in front of the goal...
Concurrently with Spain's spectacular nibbling at the Riff from the north, the French forces under Marshal Petain made an advance, near Kifane on the southern war front, into virgin sloughs of Riffland never before occupied by Europeans. It was announced that last week's French offensive had gained all its objectives in 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...
...most successful colonial administrator put a period to his career. For the last 13 years Marshal Lyautey has been building up Morocco. He pacified the major portion of it, consolidated the French protectorate, made it pay its way, put tens of thousands of Moroccan soldiers on the Allied front during the War. Only in 1916-17, when he served as French Minister of War, did he cease temporarily to be an immediate personal power in Moroccan affairs. Last week, at 71, he retired as French Resident General in Morocco, left his command and its recent complications in the hands...
...Omaha Pilot "Casey" Jones wriggled between two other contestants to make a landing-on top of a motorcycle; cycle and plane were wrecked. Mechanics worked through the night, sent him on his way again. Fifteen of the 16 landed safe at Dearborn again with the great Fokker in front. Anthony H. G. Fokker climbed stiffly down, crinkled his amiable face at his passengers: "How did you like it?" It had been marvelous, unique, they said, casting rueful glances at small brown paper bags*affixed to the arms of the pullman chairs they had lately occupied. Mr. Ford's judges...