Word: rout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italians have all but completed their Ethiopian conquest. Only the final overthrow of Addis Ababa remains before Mussolini can stalk into the League of Nations chambers and brag of a complete victory. Though most experts have doubted the economic value of the prize, no one can deny that the rout of the Emperer has cut away the last prop from the tottering statecraft of Geneva...
Died. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, 82, famed Indian scout who helped General Nelson Miles rout Sitting Bull Crazy Horse, Lame Deer and others in the Indian campaigns of 1875-77; in Washington. He was the son & namesake of Mis .iss oni's late great statesman who went from the U. S Senate to the Cabinet to the Supreme Court...
...taking Makale (TIME, Nov. 18). Nothing of a victorious nature continued to happen for three months. Then under newly appointed Marshal Pietro Badoglio came the Battle of Enderta and the capture of Amba Aradam (12 miles) with Italian boasts that the Ethiopians under Ras Mulugheta were "in headlong rout" (TIME...
Fertunately for the Crimson, Dartmouth has a weak defense, which showed itself vulnerable to solo attack in the 7-8 rout at the hands of the Elis last week. So Harvard's forward walls, uncoordinated though they are, may be able to outscore the Green, which has to get by the capable defense work of Thorny Brown and Jim Roberts, and after that the jealous net-tending of Ash Emerson...
...surviving World War commanders and in 1928, when Mussolini had been Dictator for six years, created Marquis of the Sabotino, the mountain he captured in August 1916 during the Battle of Gorizia. In November 1917 he was made the public goat of Italy's most inglorious rout at Caporetto, but within the Army his Kudos as a commander did not evaporate and he became sole Sub-Chief-of-Staff under Italian Commander in Chief General Diaz...