Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hradcany Castle, ancient stronghold on the heights of Prague, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes faced the crisis of his career. Fortnight ago the "maximum concessions" which the Czechoslovak Government believed it possible to make to Sudeten Germans without shattering its own sovereignty were offered in Premier Milan Hodza's "Plan No. 3," which Hitler promptly had the Sudetens turn down. The President then took over from the Premier, drafted and released...
...seawater over the breakwaters and into these cities. The dead numbered 99, thousands of flimsy wood & paper Japanese homes collapsed. Modern skyscrapers stood firm, but railway and electric services were suspended over much of the Empire. Japanese reported as a notable disaster the uprooting of a clump of ancient willow trees near the moat of the Imperial Palace of their Divine Emperor...
...city proper of Nürnberg (see map) are the Deutscher Hof (hotel of the Führer), the Grand (hotel of the guests of the Fuhrer); ancient Nürnberg Castle, where most-friendly journalists are entertained; the Rathaus, where the Dictator was greeted as usual this week when he entered Nürnberg; and Adolf Hitler Square, the big marketplace back of the Liebfrauenkirche across which unending rivers of uniformed Germans were to march hour after hour past the Führer...
...because what the cat really dragged in for the St. Louis museum was trouble. Fortnight ago St. Louisans of such varied stripes as the Women's Chamber of Commerce and the American Artists' Congress were swelling with indignation at the purchase of a $14,400 piece of ancient sculpture while St. Louis had no money for relief (TIME, Aug. 22). Last week their outcry had produced a serious threat to the museum...
...rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah, new German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad and on the semitropical shores of the Caspian Sea. A train will now be able to haul oil from the southwest to the granaries of the northeast, can return to the Persian Gulf loaded with Mazanderan cotton and Caspian Sea caviar. How much the freight charges will...