Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time in months, a "pirate" submarine last week appeared in the Mediterranean to sink without warning the Dutch freighter, Hannah, bound for Valencia with a cargo of beans and wheat. Last week also Rightist planes from the island of Majorca roared in five times to bomb Leftist munitions plants on the outskirts of Barcelona. But elsewhere the Spanish war was almost at a standstill. Even the snows of Teruel had melted to make an impassable torrent of the Guadalaviar River, an impassable morass of most of the lower valley...
...Teruel is the nail on a narrow finger of Rightist territory pointed at Leftist Valencia and only 75 miles from the Mediterranean, though those 75 miles include territory as difficult as any that a modern army could be asked to cross. Leftist General Rojo's capture of all but a few buildings in the centre of Teruel (TIME, Jan. 3 et ante), and the driving of his lines some six miles beyond the city, meant no more than the nipping of that fingernail. In another sense, it was a major victory of the war, for it took the initiative...
...paintings and drawings of archaic Greek and Oriental forms, Spanish bullfighters, imagined figures from history, were fresh, economical, expert. Her evening of pantomime to music was a reassuring exhibition for devotees and newcomers alike in a large, light-hearted audience. And in her briskly written account of Mediterranean travel, study and U. S. trouping, critics found a key to the pleasures of mime that many of them, had long fumbled for in vain. This key was, simply, vaudeville...
...partly to cancelations by passengers after the early autumn recessions of the U. S. stockmarket, partly to cancelations because of the alteration of the cruise route from the Orient to the Antipodes. In the main, however, battles in Spain, China, unrest in the Holy Land, North Africa and the Mediterranean have simply diverted cruises to South America, Scandinavia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. In this winter of f lourishing cruise business most of the world's greatest liners-including the Rex, Berengaria, Empress of Britain, Paris, Normandie-will sail from the world's greatest...
...Geography and Politics in the Mediterranean" is the subject of a talk to be given by Derwent S. Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography, in the Senior Common Room Wednesday evening at 7:45 o'clock...