Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building is more to be noted as a guiding star for modern Greece. That country sank to the depths of degeneration under Turkish rule. Curiously, it is Turkish action in purposely strangling the purposely of Constantinople for the benefit of Angora that is turning Mediterranean commerce to Grecian cities, particularly to Athens and its point of Piraeus. Greece has the material necessities for an era of prosperity, but she is still in the clutches of technical methods which are anachronisms from the days before the Industrial Revolution. In the construction of this new library America has furnished the surrounding country...
...north of Casablanca. There they will be well out of the muck and unpleasantness, but at the same time on the direct railroad to Fez and the embroiled uplands. General Boichut, commanding the extreme southern end of the French line, will likewise be exceedingly comfortable at Algiers on the Mediterranean. Meanwhile General Marty will be marooned high and wet at Taza; and Generals Pruneau, Hergault and Billotte will occupy a series of sloshy, uncomfortable positions to the west and northwest. Cables announced that the U. S. "Sherifian Escadrille," which has been fighting the Riffians to the annoyance of Secretary Kellogg...
While so many Italians thus took themselves with deadly seriousness, an Italian naval seaplane (the adjective is not redundant) skimmed the upper surface of the Mediterranean off Spezia. An Italian submarine skimmed the under surface, only the top of its periscope showing. With a splintering crash, periscope met plane. The aviators somersaulted unhurt into the sea. The submarine commander, quickly bringing his craft to the surface, joined his crew in smiling broadly. The accident is thought to be unique. A tourist arriving at Geneva from Italy, last week, is reported to have brought with him a Fascist pamphlet filled catechismwise...
Professor Stetson plans to return by way of the Mediterranean and Europe, and will arrive in Cambridge early in March. During his absence, Professor S. D. Townley of Leland Stanford University will take over Professor Stetson's work at the University...
...rains fell all along the French front, the forces of le Maréchal Pétain took up impregnable positions fanning out toward the Mediterranean from Kifane to a distance of some 20 miles. At the extreme northeast tip of the fan, French troops were reported to be in contact near Syan with a Spanish force (see SPAIN) which had advanced thither from Ajdir...