Word: sands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Step by step Italians will force back the desert. That task will be one of the glorious pages of the new Italy. We shall force the sand dunes to retreat into the depths of the interior, creating gardens and forests in their places. ... It is a revelation to me that everything can grow here...
Signor Mussolini, well nigh intoxicated by these splendors, climbed a steep and rickety ladder with intent to view in panorama the expanse of Leptis Magna, which slumbered beneath a protective layer of sand from about the Sixth Century until four years ago, when Finance Minister Count Volpi, then Governor of Tripoli, commenced its excavation...
...miles he piloted his own motor car at such terrific speed that the Associated Press car which followed skidded into a sand dune, turned turtle...
...Gould won the national court tennis championship from Charles E. Sand. He became the sporting sensation of the decade. He went abroad to get a match with Eustace H. Mills, champion of England, who did not want to play him at all, for he had heard the laconic comment of Major Cooper Key that "America has put the brains of a veteran into a youth of 17." Public sentiment forced Mills into the match and he won. Jay Gould returned to the U. S., entered Columbia, was elected captain of the freshman track team, led his class to triumph over...
...couldn't help it. So they went home and Charley made a wise crack. I can't remember what it was but it was funny because Charley laffed, he's the fifth. You know the rest get it. Ha. Ha. Anyway Charley should have bought a tent and some sand before we went home...