Word: turning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council proceeded to assemble for the 51st time, under the presidency of M. Hjalmar J. Procopé, the obscure though able Foreign Minister of Finland. It was his turn-alphabetically-to preside. Perhaps he inwardly cursed the alphabet as he scanned Costa Rica's embarrassing question...
Secretary Earl Baker, of the Committee, cabled from Shanghai, last week, that the myriads of grasshoppers which partially caused the famine by devouring crops are now being devoured in turn by famished humans. Fat grasshoppers are fought...
Near Berlin, Germany, rises the curious town of Neubabelsberg. To walk through Neubabelsberg is to imagine oneself the Wandering Jew, reviewing his travels in a dream. Here one may stand in awe before India's Taj Mahal, turn the corner and climb an Egyptian pyramid. Miserable Chinese hovels may adjoin the chateau of the French Renaissance. One may be anywhere, at any time, in Neubabelsberg. It is Germany's Hollywood...
...Arctic, the icebreaker Braganza, searching for lost members of Pilgrim Nobile's crew, was forced last week by the weather to turn south...
...that John Geste, survivor, is even the hero of the present yarn, but it is for his sake that Otis Vanbrugh, chief protagonist, braves countless risky episodes, Arab raids, hand-to-hand fights, imprisonment, penal servitude. Otis ransacks the heart of Africa for John Geste, who in turn is trying to find two lost friends, Buddy and Hank. The first coincidence: Otis and Geste, both serving in the Foreign Legion penal colony, are both dumped into a dark silo, and forgotten. Otis recognizes Geste by his boyhood expression-"stout fella." Second coincidence: in the middle of the desert Otis appeals...