Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy is engaged in suppressing rebel forces in Tripolitania (Tripoli Italiana); there is a state of civil war in South Ireland; General Wu's forces are fighting the Military Governor of Szechwan in Western China; the French and Germans are snarling at each other in a war of attrition in the Ruhr; trouble has again broken out over the Polish- Lithuanian boundary...
While an undergraduate at the University, he was a literary editor of the Advocate, "Ibis" of the Lampoon, and winner of the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize for a poem entitled "Tripoli". He remained at the University two years after graduation as an assistant in English...
...life of remarkable interest and activity. His biography is a series of exciting adventures, not only in the Western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904 while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered in Tripoli Harbor the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia; sunk there by Lieutenant Decateur just one hundred years before. In 1907 he transferred his explorations from Africa to South America. His scientific explorations during the next three years in Patagonia and Venezuela enabled him to make valuable collec- tions which he later...