Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decisively beaten this fall. Complete success on their part would be a great triumph, almost impossible, for Abd-el-Krim has organized the mountain fastness to hold them off until foul winter weather comes to his aid. An incident in the fighting in Morocco last week, was the report that more than 16,000 ex-German soldiers are fighting in the French Legion against the Riffs and doing well. Also that the ex-American aviators who have been organized into the Sherifian Air Guard to fight the Riffs have received a number of threatening letters supposed to have come from...
...report from Sofia had it that the last of the legal cases arising after the overthrow and killing of Premier Stambuliski in 1923 (TIME, June 25, 1923) are about to be cleaned up. At the little town of Tirnovo, 500 alleged Communists will be tried in a group, and 10,000 witnesses will be called to testify...
...Sound, the Bowdoin grounded her oaken keel on a rock ledge and stuck fast. The Peary sidled alongside to pass a towline and 34 steel drums of gasoline were heaved into the seas of seething slush to lighten the stranded hull. Nearby, a cruising iceberg burst with a dull report, setting up a monstrous wash which swept the Bowdoin off her perch. On southward steamed the ships. The elements relented. Dread Melville Bay, frigid storm-pocket of that Greenland Coast, lay unexpectedly calm and free of ice. Still skirting shore, the ships made for Disko Island (their coaling station...
...Naturalist of the expedition, Dr. Walter N. Koelz, radioed his first report to the National Geographical Society. Gray jellyfish, he told about; snails with wings; a fish like the bullhead, with ventral suckers for attaching itself to rocks while feeding; rare arctic birds in little-known summer plumage; land plants which eschew stems to snuggle next the ground and escape the wind; sea kelp, whose writhing shapes even Eskimos often mistook for animal life; carpets of wildflowers, luxuriant timothy, gaudy mosaics of lichen, orange and purple, on the black rock cliffs; the maniacal laughter of sky-filling clouds of dovekies...
Crime alone?the industry which, with meatpacking, is responsible for the wide reputation of his native city?he could not understand. When the report came to his paper of the bandits who raided the Drake hotel, (TIME, Aug. 10, NATIONAL AFFAIRS), he said: "Poor fellows...