Word: pass
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
...behind and above came the smash of rifle fire. Soldiers fell. Hastily the French commander flung out a skirmish line, halted the advance. His little patrol was completely ambushed by 3,000 ragged, bearded, fierce-fighting Moors. Firing every inch of the way the French patrol retreated through the pass to the cement blockhouse of Ait Yacoub (Jacob's Hummock). For 48 hours the garrison of 360 French and Senegalese stood off 3,000 yelling bloodthirsty tribesmen owing allegiance to no recognized Sheikh, who had sworn to die rather than submit to French rule. In the ambush and retreat...
...chill that fell over the boxing world when Promoter Rickard lay, with cheeks rouged and his best suit on, in a glass-covered box at Madison Square Garden, did begin to pass last week when showgirls from Florenz Ziegfeld's Whoopee turned out to sell tickets for a fight on June 27 in the Yankee Stadium. Although ostensibly to benefit New York poor children by swelling the Milk Fund, and although the world's championship will not be at issue, this fight loomed far more significantly than the inconclusive Dempsey-promoted by-play at Miami last winter between...
...forgotten that at inaugural President Hoover had recommended the transfer of Prohibition Enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.* Now he was prepared to pass the whole troublesome question to Congress for solution. With the Law Enforcement commission and the proposed congressional commission at work on the same subject, many an observer thought he saw a gradual stifling of Prohibition as an issue for political agitation...
Among the various parts of the University that will have to pass through a more or less perplexing period of readjustment in the next few years the Harvard Union stands out as one whose problems will be most trying. Consequently the new change in the organization of its management comes at a peculiarly opportune time...