Word: xenophon
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Dwindling 10,000. Like the anabasis of Xenophon's 10,000 Greek mercenaries (hired by Persia's Cyrus II to fight his brother Artaxerxes), Alaska's famed Valley of 10,000 Smokes (created by Mt. Katmai blowing off its top) has dwindled to about 100 steaming earth vents.? Robert Fiske Griggs (George Washington...
...London, the will of Arthur Pepper, who left property of ?95, gave power of attorney to a relative named Ann Bertha Cecilia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louisa Maud Nora Ophelia Quince Rebecca Starkey Teresa Ulysses Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetta Zenus Pepper...
...French General Staff to overthrow the Soviet State (TIME, Nov. 24; Dec. 8). With a glass of hot tea at his elbow, Presiding Justice Vyshinsky faced the microphone, told all Russia for an hour how extremely guilty the Court had found the prisoners, then paused to deliver sentence: "Xenophon. Sitnin! Ten years imprisonment!" Two other less important prisoners received the same sentence. But the five ringleaders, headed by Professor Leonid Ramzin, were condemned, one after an-other to: "The highest measure of social protection, Rastrel [Death by shooting]." At each death sentence cheers rang through the packed courtroom, echoed...
...Harvard hockey players had to battle everything but the police in their efforts to practice in those late winters of the Gay Nineties. An expedition, carrying all its worldly hockey goods with it, would set out in the afternoon, like Xenophon's Ten Thousand, looking for a place with ice. When it was found, camp was pitched, clothes were changed in the cold, and hockey was played as conditions permitted...
Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...