Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Emeralds. The source of Krim's remarkable wealth was declared to be certain valuable mineral deposits in the Riff, which are allegedly worked by women when the fighting male Riffi are at the front. Emeralds and gold are said to be mined in quantities, except when the heavy winter rains cause flooding of the areas excavated...
...Mexico City and in Washington ten lengthy documents were released simultaneously last week. They consisted of the official correspondence between the U.S. and Mexico which has been going on in secret since early last winter concerning the new Mexican land and petroleum laws. Most of the documents released last week do not lend themselves to pertinent summary. The significant fact is that both governments appear to consider the subject closed, and the U.S. Administration has intimated throught "spokesmen" that it considers Mexico to have given sufficient assurances that the new laws are not "retroactive and confiscatory...
Occasionally he would invite newly employed sailors to drink with him. As they raised their mugs of rum he whacked them in the midriff. In winter, he would scowl upon the shivering beggars...
Jungle Joe now joins their company, a youthful elephant captured with 55 of his elders and betters in a drive on the Malay Peninsula. He is brought over the oceans to Madison Square Garden; shipped across the continent with a big circus to winter quarters in Hollywood, and then back again to grace the zoo of a small New England city...
...Every Wednesday night during the winter term lectures, including several travel talks were held in Harvard Hall. These together with a number of motion picture shows have continued to draw large crowds every week. Addresses on science and art, which we had arranged, for two Friday evenings each month again proved popular...