Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practically complete at the St. Nazaire shipyards on the Loire (France), and that contracts have been approved for two Greek "super-submarines." Observers recalled the words of Dictator Pangalos (TiME, Jan. 11) : "Greece in a few months will have a fleet dominating the eastern basin of the Mediterranean...
...third main stream or type of the white races is "Mediterranean", short, dark, brachycephalic...
...assumption of both a cultural and a racial aspect makes this renaissance the logical reaction to the fashionable Nordic propaganda of late years. But the suggestion of a cultural and racial alignment of Teuton against Mediterranean is rather formidable in the contemplation. A further thought, however, will convince that the turbulent and comparatively poor nations of the south can be imagining nothing so wild as conflict to secure their racial dignity. It is much more likely that the progress of Pan Latinism will find the Latins trying to emulate the more successful features of northern society, its industry, its educational...
Mare Nostrum. Ibanez' novel has been prepared in sumptuous detail by Rex Ingram. Many of the scenes were taken on the Mediterranean and most of these are of surpassing beauty. War takes up a good deal of the film, with Alice Terry playing the German spy. Submarine action is vigorously included. Despite certain lethargic stretches the film is easily the feature of the week...
...were approaching, 2,000 strong, the Senussite leaders informed their ignorant people that the sovereignty of Jarabub has been transferred from Egypt to Italy by an Italo-Egyptian Commission (TIME, Oct. 12, EGYPT), which made this important disposition of a virtually autonomous people while cruising about luxuriously in the Mediterranean (north of Jarabub) without troubling to land and make the awkward 270-mile trek inland to the oasis itself...