Word: gallipolis
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...with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs replied with their handful of 6-in. batteries, which of course did no serious damage to the heavily armored Paris. Meanwhile the Spanish troops, 16,000 strong, in steel "beetle boats," the same type as those used by the British at Gallipoli, effected a landing on the 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...
...derelict in Manhattan, he got a job in a saloon serving beer, washing glasses, taking care of the bartender's baby. The poet Yeats encouraged him to write. His works include: The Everlasting Mercy, The Widow in the Bye-Street, Dauber, The Daffodil Fields, Reynard the Fox, Gallipoli (prose), Enslaved...
...course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron did it for all his maimed leg-is a paddle of only three miles...
There were two speeches of importance given at the Union this week. On Monday Mr. John Gallishaw, now studying at the University, spoke on "Gallipoli." He is one of the 150 survivors of an entire regiment that entered the battle. "Public Life and the Law" was the subject of Hon George W. Wicken sham's talk Thursday evening...
...From no angle can the Gallipoli Campaign be called a picnic...