Word: messina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orient Express or the Simplon Orient. The Orient goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina, on one side of which is the toe of the Italian boot, on the other Sicily. Both are uncomfortably close...
...Gaetano Salvemini, formerly Professor of Medieval and Modern History at the universities of Messina, Pisa, and Florence, Italy, and since 1934 Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization at Harvard, has been reappointed to this post again for this year...
...crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina's flag-strung streets, minimized the importance of the war games with a wish to "dispel untimely & absurd alarms darkening the horizon, because my journey to Sicily has ends that are purely peaceful & constructive...
...summary: RHODE ISLAND HARVARD Messina, Partington, McCarthy, Kogut, r.f l.f., White, Shirk Keaney, Tashjian, Masterson, l.f. r.f., Lavietes, Lowman, McGowan, Litman Martin, c. c., Gray, Herrick Burke, Fabricant, r.g. l.g., Damper, Snell, Mason, Wills Wright, Wightman...
Score--Rhode Island 44, Harvard 28. Goals--Keaney 4, Messina 4, Fabricant 3, Lavietes 3, Gray 3, Martin 2, Burke 2, Snell 2, Tashjian, Partington, White, Damper, Wills. Fouls--Messina 6, Martin 3, Lavietes 2, Willis 2. Tashjian 1, White, Dampeer, Snell. Officials--Clark, Kelleher. Timekeeper--Culver. Time--Two twenty minute periods...