Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendship developed into an alliance. In the British House of Commons Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain announced that Turkey and Britain had agreed to conclude a "definite long-term agreement of reciprocal character in the interest of their national security. In the event of aggression leading to war in the Mediterranean area," added Mr. Chamberlain, "they [Turkey and Britain] would be prepared to cooperate effectively and lend each other all aid and assistance in their power...
...Pleistocene, or even earlier.† The first known white representatives were short men with long heads. Some of them blended with bulky Neanderthaloid types, produced a fairly stable hybrid group. After the Pleistocene's end these hybrids survived in Europe as hunters and fishers. Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean area a race of pure Homo sapiens ancestry appeared which learned agriculture and animal husbandry. Some of them moved north and west to blend with the hunters and fishers. Thus the European melting pot was set to boil, and hundreds of further migratory stirrings, major and minor, kept it seething...
...racial types were mingling before the end of the Stone Age. Nordics are a minority in present-day Germany, for Nordics are characteristically dolichocephalic (longheaded) whereas most Germans are brachycephalic (round-headed). The brachycephalic include Borreby and Alpine types, relatively little changed since the Stone Age, and Binaries, a Mediterranean importation of narrow-nosed roundheads...
...Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington). Forester's big guns are trained on Hornblower's spectacular sea fights, his three engagements against the 50-gun Spanish man-of-war Natividad off the coast of South America, his daring raids on French men-of-war in the Mediterranean, his recapture of a British 10-gun cutter at Nantes, his escape from Napoleon's firing squad...
...French Fleet had one end of the Mediterranean tied up and the English had the other. Nevertheless, flushed by its recent conquest of Albania, Fascist Italy last week talked, screamed, shrieked empire. One night tens of thousands of ardent black-shirted Fascists marched from their neighborhood clubs to Rome's famed Piazza, di Venezia. Shouting their Fascist slogans, singing their Party's songs, they faced the lighted windows of the massive Palazzo Venezia, where, as they all knew, the powerful Fascist Grand Council was meeting to decide high questions of State...