Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain was concerned the matter was not entirely one of conjecture. That country, to protect its communications with India, has a prime interest to serve in bottling up the Mediterranean Sea, which it does from Gibraltar; Tangier opposite, under international control, being "everybody's dog is nobody's dog," and therefore does not count. Whatever Sir Austen may have said, it seems a logical deduction to suppose that he aimed at increasing Britain's hold on the Mediterranean and possibly did offer Spain much needed tariff concessions in return for her aid in strengthening the British position...
Elections. Cheering and chairing followed the election of Edward Elwell Spafford, Manhattan lawyer, as National Commander. He is the first Navy man so honored?a lieutenant-commander of a Mediterranean torpedo flotilla in the War. While being cheered he held in his arms small Jay Ward, aged 7, from Philadelphia, "typical American boy," new official Legion mascot. After his speech of acceptance, Commander Spafford was said to have slipped away alone to stand at salute beside the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier...
...Ephesus, hid from persecution, were sealed in by their pursuers and miraculously awoke 200 years later. They also found fragments of the earliest city of Ephesus (10th Century B. C.) with traces of Kybele, the locality's particular version of the divine matriarch common to many religions in the Mediterranean Basin before the spread of the sacrificial Son-of-God form of religion...
Clicking smoothly over groomed lawns, globes of lignum vitae or other dark and ponderous fibre, rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...
...Whether in the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas it may replace Rumanian oil has nothing to do with the question. That argument belongs to the red herring class unless Vacuum Oil Co. believes (which she does not) that because the Vacuum or the Standard of New York have decided to give (in their trade) Russian oil a preference over Rumanian oil, the Rumanian producers are going to curtail their production...