Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Master of the terrain is Abd-el-Krim, whom his followers have proclaimed "Sultan." He knows that he cannot beat the French, but he also knows that the French cannot beat him without risking far more than he, Abd-el-Krim, thinks they will. This attitude is accounted for by the comparative security which his steep mountains provide him. Troops cannot be moved across them except through winding passes which the Riffian tribesmen dominate. Artillery and bombs are almost useless; for they cannot remove mountains of rock. But against the attackers the tribesmen bring to bear all manner of weapons...
...small caravan led by A. M. Hassanein Bey, F.R.G.S., set out from Sellum on the Mediterranean in 1923, began to crawl in the sun's eye across the Libyan Desert. Seven months later, Explorer Hassanein reached El Fasher in the Sudan, having covered 2,200 miles of little-known terrain, discovered two important oases, mapped a new route from Egypt to equatorial Africa, collected a large amount of orographic geological material. He has written the narrative of that expedition...
...schools, the entire University will be quartered in the pile, uncrowded even when its students number 12,000. Moreover, massing all schools and departments together in one building was felt to make for unity in the educational idea imparted to the students. A final, obvious consideration was economy of terrain...
This recalls again the statement made some years ago to the effect that the only future to which New England could look forward was that of being the playground of the nation, as railroad folders alluringly express it. The Green and White Mountains so cut up the terrain that large scale agriculture is impossible; the natural water power facilities will soon be surpassed by those developed by other districts; and the geographical location is not central enough to exert a powerful effect on the course of national trade. So say the ravens...
This difference in the nature of the terrain applies not only to Yale potentialities but also to those of Dartmouth, which is considered the University's strongest rival for first honors. A month ago in a triangular meet the scores stood Dartmouth 33, University of Maine 36; Harvard 66; but Captain Coburn had only just returned to the squad after a prolonged absence, and Watters did not run at all. Even more important in calculations based on this score is the acknowledged fact that the Crimson has only this week reached the peak of its training. The same consideration also...