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...against Jews last week in Syria, Transjordania, Irak and Arabia (see map). They shouted "Palestine for the Arabs!," jabbered of Holy War and of the booty to be got by plundering expeditions into Palestine. Syria is a protectorate of France but her civilized soldiers have never been able to quell the wild, rebellious Sultan El Atrash who lives in a mud palace high in the remote mountains and sallies forth on sporadic raids at the head of his hard-riding, fanatical Druse tribesmen. Last week the dread Atrash was reputed to be rampaging toward Palestine with...
...single to left, and took second on Caristen's second hit of the day. Wilmer flied out, but Prager walked, filling the bases. Walker's hit scored Peterson, but on the same play Prager was caught off second. At this juncture, Howard Whitmore '29 was sent in to quell the Quaker bats. He was greeted by Becker's single to right, which was responsible for the last Pennsylvania run. Slaughter was out when his bunt on the third strike rolled foul, and the damage was done...
...coming home to save the Kellogg-Briand Peace Treaty, or the trouble was that Hubert Work, Republican National Committee Chairman, had planned to take "patronage" (i.e., job issuing) out of Congressional hands and into the committee's and his own, and Mr. Hoover was going to Washington to quell the protests of indignant Senators and Representatives...
...looked for if the Freshmen capture the sense of humor which their proctors seem to have lost. With this report in mind it is not surprising to learn that the proctors of Smith Hall have decided that at least one of their number must be constantly on hand to quell any disturbance which may arise within the quadrangle. Nor is it astonishing to hear that on the one occasion of their combined absence this year, disgraceful proceedings were reported...
...Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell the uprising of laborers. But the insensate miners greeted the representative of their inexorable master with knives and firebrands, and when Dianella heard that Aurelio (and a lady-friend) had been gashed and burned alive she went...