Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France also leads in air transport. According to Stéphane Lausanne, of Le Matin, France now has eight active air lines, six radiating from Paris to London, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Warsaw, Geneva, Marseilles, one from Antibes to Ajaccio (Corsica), one across the Mediterranean from Toulouse to Casablanca in Morocco. England can boast of only three or four lines to the Continent...
...hours before Delcassé died, General Lyautey went under the surgeon's knife at Rabat, on the African shore of the Mediterranean. He may die. These two Frenchmen, one a politician and the other a Field Marshal, were chiefly responsible for the creation of France's colonial empire, a territory larger than the United States by 1,000,000 square miles...
...runs the cut and dried despatch announcing one more conquest of nature, opening up a new era for trans-Saharan travel and trade, and connecting the French of the Mediterranean with the colonies of the West Coast...
...talk of the good old Christmases with the house banked by three feet of snow without and warmed by good cheer within. But after all, they are but a few. Christmas is still Christmas, whether you spend it in New Jersey or in Widener digging up data on early Mediterranean pirates. And the CRIMSON, after pulling down the editorial windowshades for the year, pauses only for best wishes to the rest of the University before departing...
...yesterday's lecture, Professor Pirenne continued to trace the growth of European cities from the time of the Moslem invasion. "At this period," he stated, "the western portion of Europe was entirely cut off from intercourse with the East and the Mediterranean lands. The consequence was a complete disappearance of the former Roman cities, and in their stead arose a civilization essentially devoted to agricultural pursuits. From this time dates the manorial system when all the land belonged to the lords and the clergy...