Word: refugees
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*Traditionally founded by St. Marinus as a Christian refuge from the persecution of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. †Area, 38 sq. mi. Frontier length, 24 mi. Population, 12,027 (1920). San Marino has a treaty of friendship with Italy, and extradition treaties with Britain, the Netherlands and the U...
The order came. Compressed air pumps sent buoyancy to six 40-ton steel pontoons made fast to the submarine 132 feet below. Meanwhile the wind whipped up heavy combers which rolled the ships gayly. In the greysome depths eels and fishes saw the huge barnacled steel whale shift about and...
Prof. Samuel Eliot Morison, of Harvard's history department has been writing perspective impressions of Harvard for the Harvard Alumni Bulletin after three years (1922-25) as Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. An impression recently published beneath the terse statement which U. S. graduates and undergraduates...
I am not seduced by an extravagant hope that educators can assemble any single bag of tricks that will swiftly and sweepingly reverse what may be the irresistible tendency of modern civilization to create burdens it cannot carry and to set up a suicidal complexity of organization. Our civilization and...
The chief local henchmen of the Lord are Perry Northcutt, thin-lipped banker, and Roxie Biggers, merciless chariteer. Northcutt has it in for young Teeftallow, having failed to mulct him of some intricately inherited timberlands. So Abner learns more about humanity when he and Nessie Sutton come up for public...