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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moroccan situation gave Italy her chance to step into Tripoli, a land filled with a motley crowd of people. There are whites, Arabs, and Negroes composing the chief element of the population, and there are the Bedouins or nomadic Arabs living in the oases which are sprinkled over the desert and around the towns. But these people are hard to civilize and, as much as they hate their Turkish conquerors, they like them better than they do the Christians. The country has always been closed to the civilizing influences which have sometimes been set toward it. It remains a land...
...time, were she not occupied elsewhere. Italy, however, is going to encounter difficulties. The city of Tripoli is taken, but not the country. Water is scarce even in the city, camels are absolutely necessary for transportation, and food is in the absolute control of the Turkish rulers of the land...
GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Shoreline Changes in Northern and Southern Sweden." (Illustrated). Professor D. W. Johnson. "The Land-Slide of St. Alban, Quebec." Professor Palache. Mineralogical lecture Room, University Museum...
...nurse had never found the child. The prospect seems as hopeless as any that had baffled Henry's detectives, but Martha, her mind tottering dangerously from the strain of waiting and longing, sets off to the South to hunt for the child through all the mills in the land. Henry, who owns one of these same mills, sends orders to push the profits as hard as possible to supply money for further search...
...Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, which will be erected on land adjoining the Medical School, will be finished by November 1, 1912. The buildings will be between Van Dyke and Francis streets and will cover about nine acres. There will be 14 separate buildings, connected by corridors and subways, containing in all 240 beds. Because of its proximity, the new hospital will largely replace the Massachusetts General Hospital as a clinic for the Medical School...