Word: hillses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In 1898, practically nobody wanted to hold the Philippines except as a grandiose assumption of ? "the white man's burden." Now, wise business interests see in the Philippines great prospect of national wealth. Rubber perhaps will grow there. Not only so, but 50 or 100 years hence the U...
Five thousand Riff tribesmen danced and cavorted among the Riffian hills. "Mulay Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim," they shouted, brandishing their swords, "Sultan el-Islam, dj'der ba-ba Spanol!"
Upon the Capitoline, smallest of Rome's seven hills, Premier Mussolini spoke last week in a mood of fervent exaltation before the International Congress of Surgeons.
Today I have put away all arid, spiritless charts, and raise my eyes unto the hills, and turn my steps toward them.
And now I am confronted with one of these problems most embarrassing to a vagabond. Before me rise three hills all at an equal distance. Which shall I ascend? In other words, shall. I at 11 o'clock go to Sever 35 to hear Dr. Maynadier in English 29 speak...