Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Triumph. Part of the "work" to which Premier Mussolini recalled his Ministers consisted of last minute preparations for a voyage across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli, upon which the Premier was scheduled to embark late in the week, accompanied by the new Fascist directorate (headed by Turati) and by numerous provincial secretaries of the Fascist party. True to his words, Mussolini set sail ? on the day following Miss Gibson's attack...
...favorable isolation, as England lost here during the past twenty years. The greatest value of this book is the clearness with which the author demonstrates that, however many danger-spots exist today in international politics, there are few examples of friction between neighboring nations. Whether the problem concerns the Mediterranean, rivalry for the Straits, the Suex or the Panama Canal, control over the way to India, the problem of the Pacific,--each is equally important, each has an influence over the policy of the great powers and, consequently, wherever controversy becomes too strained, a great number of states are immediately...
...government and sociology. Language courses both on the boat and ashore will be conversational, and the study of literature will be divorced from chonology and allied to geography, so that students will read Loti in Japan Conrad in Java, Kipling in India, the Greek and Roman classics in the Mediterranean Fielding and Thackeray in London."Hamlet" in Denmark...
Vernal wanderlust commenced stirring last week. Last year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
Once a year the "fastest ship in the world" is taken off the transatlantic express service. In order that U. S. babbitts may dash once around the Mediterranean and back to work, the Mauretania makes that circuit every winter at a speed considerably above that of Balkan express trains...