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...airplanes were dispatched to Lanai to hinder the Blues. The Blacks, with about 15,000 troops available, were required to keep 4,000 to man the fortifications. A cordon of troops was established at all the available landing beaches, and the remainder were held in reserve near the west coast, which was regarded as the most dangerous and the most likely point of attack...
...Blues planned to seize not Lanai, but Molokai for an air base; then to make a feint with the fleet at the south coast of Oahu, making its main landing attack on the north coast, with a secondary landing on the west coast. As a matter of fact, both Molokai and Lanai were seized. The airplane carrier Langley was kept well at sea to avoid the Black submarines and the Blue airplanes flew to land as soon as the Islands were taken. Before this, the Black airplanes inflicted losses on the landing parties, sinking a tender, but of course could...
...worked out a plan; and then the world was startled by the announcement that the Spanish forces in Morocco had retired to the Anjera line. This line - a chain of 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...
...gentlemen of the Examining Board pushed their papers away, sat back with various demonstrations of relief. They had finished arranging, in honorable order, the scores of the 95 golfers who, at Long Beach, L. I., in Chicago, on the Coast, qualified for the Open Golf Championship. There were 5 from the Pacific Coast, 30 from Chicago, 60 from the East and 1 player who did not have to qualify-Cyril Walker of New Jersey, the champion. There was also one score so much lower than any of the rest that the weary examiners, their labor over, discussed...
...investigations were carried out on the East coast of North America by three parties. The most northerly site explored is Cambridge, an amorphous section of the large city of Greater Dublin; Newhaven lies some distance to the South in a slightly less intolerable climate, while the small settlement of Princeton, (which at first seemed to provide the most promising material but subsequently proved of little interest), is the most southerly point reached by the expedition. Apparently this last site, planned on most attractive lines, was not permanently inhabited by scholars, but was used as a place of rest. There...