Word: algerian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair-growing processes that they averaged 19 Ibs. heavier than two-gland rams; yielded half a pound more wool per clipping. The mutton increase, if "glanding" were continued, would be about...
...Sahara, at Hoggar, a band of French and Americans? "Count" Byron Kuhn de Prorok,* Algerian officials, and Trustee W. Bradley Tyrrell of Beloit College (Wis.)?broke into the reputed tomb of Tin Hinan, semi-legendary queen and goddess of the white race of Tuaregs (Berbers). In the crumbling frame of a carved wooden couch lay the six-foot skeleton of a personage, seemingly female, littered with beads, carbuncles, garnets, gold and silver objects, glass balls, with black and yellow designs like eyes. On the arm bones hung massive bracelets?eight on the right, seven on the left?of gold...
...improbable that they can gain a decisive victory before the winter rain sets in, and then they must wait until April for fair days. This week's successes place them in a strong position for organizing themselves to hold their present territory over the winter. The Morocco-Algerian railway is now well behind the front and not subject to raids as it has been in the past few weeks with the Riff lines only six miles away at some points...
Heavy engagements were reported in various sectors of the fighting line. French Spahis, crack Algerian cavalry and other cavalry detachments hurled the enemy back from their recently acquired positions. Tanks were also employed in driving the Riffians from their entrenchments. At the western end of the Wergha Valley, the rebels were driven back into the Spanish zone where, in conjunction with the French, Spanish troops were preparing to deal with them. After these engagements, undertaken in an appalling heat wave, the war became less hectic. A calm that precedes a storm settled on the front...
...trenches and fortified positions- had behind it all the important and most of the small zocos (markets). Along the coast, from Tetuán to Melilla, warships were posted; and, at the last place, the Spanish held another zone extending almost to the limit of Spanish Morocco near the Algerian frontier. A blockade had been declared...