Word: taine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...victory yesterday, which also counted as a test match to determine the ranking of the team for the match next Saturday with the Harvard Club quintet, Wright advanced to first man and Cap- tain Debevoise dropped to second place. H. N. Rawlins '27, P. M. Lenhart '27, and L. S. Haskins '26 will occupy the last three places on the team respectively. In gaining a place in the finals Debevoise won from Lenhart 3--1, and Wright defeated Manager G. H. Perkins...
Torrential rains in the French sectors of Riffland brought all operations to such a complete standstill last week that Marshal Pétain entrusted the High Command of the French forces to General Naulin and set out from Fez for Paris. To correspondents at Marseilles he remarked, "The military action is terminated. I now turn over the task to the statesmen...
...initialed documents for all to see. They will be promptly submitted to the nations concerned, and formal signatures are to be exchanged in London about Dec. 1. Since President von Hindenburg and his Cabinet approved the agreements by telegraph before they were initialed, competent observers consider it cer. tain that the following treaties will eventually come into force...
...rains fell all along the French front, the forces of le Maréchal Pétain took up impregnable positions fanning out toward the Mediterranean from Kifane to a distance of some 20 miles. At the extreme northeast tip of the fan, French troops were reported to be in contact near Syan with a Spanish force (see SPAIN) which had advanced thither from Ajdir...
...French Military headquarters great satisfaction was expressed over the precision with which Pétain's forces have recently gained their objectives. The whole campaign which has been evolving recently in the Kifane sector is now declared to be a model for future French tactics in African warfare, and Pétain is credited by observers with having employed unwieldly modern military equipment to the best possible advantage on a front where all modern methods of transportation by rail or water are nonexistent...