Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asia Minor, along with the funds and the kind efforts contributed by the American people, all the heroic sacrifices of American missionaries, and all the hopes concerning a revival of that ancient spiritual life and civilization of Asia Minor, will be of no avail whatsoever. And this great peninsula of Asia Minor, stretching toward Europe, which in previous times has served as a bridge for the crossing of western civilization to Asia will now, while in the hands of a powerful and fanatical Turkey, become an impenetrable wall, blocking the passage of progress and civilization to the east. Someone...
Edgewood Arsenal is admirably situated for an R. O. T. C. camp. It is located on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad twenty miles north of Baltimore on a peninsula eight miles long and about two miles wide. This territory known as Gunpowder Neck, jutts out into Chespeake Bay between the mouths of the Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. The railroad cuts across the entire width of the neck forming the northern boundary of the Arsenal. On all other sides the Arsenal is surrounded by water, affording an excellent opportunity for boating, swimming, and fishing. In addition there are tennis...
...arrived in Chita, Peru, our preliminary base, on September 13. Our company consisted of the following members: Senor Alvarotez, professor of Archaeology at Nueva Barcelona, our leader and supervisor, "guide, counsellor, and friend"; Don Calvo, as geologist, (Whose work in stratifying the cliffs of the Anacondian Peninsula has made him world-famous); Dr. Bonaparte (exchange professor from the Sorbonne) who serves as osteologist and physician; Leon Cavallo, our chief topographer; two assistant topographers; and myself, who am to act as historian and representative of the American government...