Word: outpost
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...Syria have been sorely harried. Reports have been fragmentary and contradictory, agreeing only in presenting a story of native unrest and guerrilla warfare. Some 1,500 Bedouins were reported to have assaulted Damascus, been repulsed by French cavalry, to have prepared for another onslaught, to have captured an outpost. The French fort of Sueida with a garrison of 200 was besieged by the Druse tribe . . . An airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding out in his automobile...
Captain Ludovici is answered in much the same vein from a far-flung Anglo-Amazonian outpost by the second wife of the Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, lately-retired scholar of Cambridge University...
...especially disconcerting when a new flood of light is thrown upon the mystories of University administration--not from within, to be sure--but from some obscure outpost of civilization, such as Mansfield, Ohio. The Mansfield High School paper. The Hyphonerian, full of the praiseworthy ambition to acquaint its students with the best that is known and thought in the world, conceived the idea of publishing short biographical and descriptive notes upon the leading universities, "especially in Ohio". Harvard is accorded a prominent place. Among details more or less known to Harvard men, though new to young Ohionese, the following sentences...
...early part of the year, he was never conceded a chance of becoming a first string man. Perhaps his blunder in making a faulty pass at a crucial moment in the Dartmouth game served him well in the end. Shortly after he was given a chance at an outpost. That he has done well at his new job is witnessed by the fact that he is the most likely candidate for right end against Princeton...
...lineup Coach, Fisher will start this afternoon is undoubtedly his strongest combination. With the exception of Beals for Chase at the left outpost, the line in the same which was chosen for Team A the beginning of the second week of practice. It out-weighs the Virginian line by three pounds a man, and although it has not been tested in a game as the visitor's line has, it is given the odds in about all the points of the game...