Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet upon cobblestones leading to old docks. Tired drivers urged their charges on in guttural Spanish. All paths seemed to lead to the water, to the quay, where moored to the stones three small ships lay, taking on stores for a limitless voyage. Idle crowds milled about the blue Mediterranean shore. On board the vessels activity was intense. Men, who by their very dress, proved themselves to be no native mariners, were making ready for the departure of the craft. Another weighted donkey drew up, discharged his cargo, departed. The group about the shore increased as word about the town...
...Mediterranean is a southern sea, and yet it has created a philosophy, a religion, and an empire. This fact makes Italy impervious to criticism from abroad. We can regard with supreme disparagement those doctrines which come from elsewhere, from a people which did not even know how to write when we had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus...
...outlets of this sea," he shouted, "are in the hands of others.* If Italy does not wish to become a recluse in the Mediterranean she must ever increase her strength. . . . Taranto shall stand as a symbol to keep the Mediterranean open. . . . Our people must be ready for any event. If we should be obliged to take the field, I shall be at your head...
...rocky northern coast of Corsica sat Playwright Noel Coward, sipping a drink, waiting for his chartered yacht Mairi to pick him up. Two days before a Mediterranean squall had sent him scurrying ashore to shelter. As the storm abated he saw Mairi nose in toward shallow water, buckle up on a rock, spill her crew into the sea. Yachtsman Coward started to hike. Twenty miles down the coast he walked into the village of Ile Rousse, told his plight to a skeptical hotelkeeper, who cabled London. When Coward got back to the wreck he waded in to salvage what...
...according to his Staten Island minister upon the occasion of Mr. Aspinwall's death in 1875. Aged 25, he was taken into partnership in the mercantile firm of Gardiner G. & Samuel S. Howland. his uncles. The firm later fell largely into his hands, developed a thriving trade in the Mediterranean, an unrivalled one in the Pacific and East Indies, a downright monopoly in Venezuela. His venture into the promotion of the 49-mi. Panama R.R., whose eastern terminus was called Aspinwall,* and the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. which linked it to both sides of the continent, was regarded...