Word: tip
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...western tip of the sausage, the Riffs erupted in attacks against the Spanish around Tetuan. The Riffs made sporadic jabs that endangered the Spaniards' communications, and kept the defenders on pins and needles...
...scene was the western tip of the Seip Mound, near Bainbridge, Ohio. The diggers, Curator Harry C. Shetrone and Director C. W. Mills of the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society (Columbus), and Archaeologist Gerard Fowke, of Maysville, Ky. The remains seemed to be those of royal personages among the ancient Mound Builders-a late Stone Age race that threw, up its totemic burial tumuli from the Rockies to the Atlantic and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico...
...Superintendent, Colonel H. M. Albright. A long day was spent in listening to stories told to his discredit. He was responsible, he heard, for an exhorbitant motorcar entrance fee of $7.50. Buffalo had died during the filming of The Thundering Herd. Favoritism had been shown to the neighboring Silver Tip Ranch owned by Thomas Cochran (Morgan Partner). Equipment had been loaned to utility companies. There was too much banqueting of Eastern dudes at government expense...
...Easternmost tip of the U. S. The westernmost is Cape Flattery, Wash., jutting to sea across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island...