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...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
Surrounded by soldiers, police and sombre-coated civilians, President Paul Doundouriotis, 72, puppet president of Greece, descended the steps of the town hall in Athens, well satisfied with his address to the Congress of Mayors, pompous, rotund, lean, from every municipality in the Republic of the Hellenes, otherwise Greece...
...lady in Study of My Mother is sitting in an armchair by a window through whose heavy curtains only enough light soaks to touch the hands that lean against her steep lap. Her severe face makes her thought a secret. Maybe she is thinking about God, maybe she is wondering what time it is. But her eyes are looking at something through the dark room beyond its darkness...
...decision, but in the next year the Crimson tasted defeat for the third time in football history at the hands of a Dartmouth team. The score, 16 to 0, represented the worst beating a Harvard football team had taken since 1907. With the advent of the ensuing lean years on the Stadium gridiron Dartmouth continued to carry off football triumphs until last year's last minute comeback enabled the Crimson to interrupt the string of Big Green successes. By Time...
...since these amiable organizations controlled and dictated all foreign news matter published in the United States from August 1914 until the close of the recent unpleasantness, we were forced to put up with whatever makeshift or even imaginary heroes our sometime allies could furnish. And it was indeed a lean week when we were unable to read of the British Battalion Commander who led his gallant boys to victory by dribbling a soccer ball over No Man's Land. So frequently was this astounding fruitery perpetrated that one might reasonably have been lead to believe it to have been...