Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day, July 11, Japan suffered one of the worst quakes in a decade. In the tea and orange district of Shizuoka, 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, nine persons were killed, 101 injured, 125 houses destroyed. Mr. Greenspan had predicted other temblors "in Turkey, Italy and around the Mediterranean" to take place on or before July 14. In that case he seemed to be shooting all around the mark because minor temblors actually occurred on July 13 in Rumania and Bulgaria...
...bats: "If the German fleet were fixed at 35% of the British strength that would be equal to 85% of the French fleet. Germany would therefore have an incontestable superiority in the northern seas, as we would be obliged to keep part of our force in the Mediterranean and for colonial defense. Consequently we are faced with this alternative: Either to leave our ports open to German attack or to increase our naval forces. As is so often the case, these pretended agreements for arms limitation just lead to an armaments race...
...land boom, two hurricanes, a plague of Mediterranean fruit flies and a Depression laid Florida low. A Brooklyn-born Yaleman has done what he could to hoist it to its feet. Jolly, plump Dave Sholtz went to Florida at 22 to study law. Becoming an Elk, a Shriner, a Rotarian and president of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, he learned to spout the booster's creed. When Florida elected him Governor in 1932 he proved his loyalty by routing official drones, paring expenses, making the State's financial outlook the most hopeful in seven years...
...great river Euphrates. AmRaphael being the First King mentioned in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 14th Chapter, Verse I 'Amraphael, King of Babylon' and his descendant Nebuchadnezzar being the First World King; whose wonderful Irish-Phonecian Sailors, rounded Arabia; founded the great City of Raphia. on the Mediterranean; Sailed through the Pillars of Hercules and discovered 'New Raphia' the America of today, the 'Atlantis' of the ancient Greeks; Our Greater General Alexander the Great, who favors we now capsize the oppressive power of modern Babylon like his typical predecessor...
...spring long ago North European pagans used taboos to bring the gods' favor on their crops. When the green shoots showed, they celebrated the festival of Eostre. Meantime along the Mediterranean dark followers of Attis, Isis, Osiris, Mithras worshiped a god who was born of a virgin and one who died and rose from the dead...