Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish settlement in Palestine with a certain amount of justifiable bias. He hopes however, that the enlightened public opinion of the world at large, which shows so much sympathy toward the efforts of the Arab people to organize its life in politically free communities in the enormous areas of Arabia, Egypt, Irak, and Syria, and to progress there economically and culturally, will show an equal sympathy toward the efforts of the Jewish people to attain an analogous development in Palestine. Dr. Benjamin Akzin...
Japanese explain General Kenji Doihara to Occidentals as "our Lawrence of Manchuria." It was perfectly all right, they say, for Great Britain to detach Arabia from Turkey during the War by sending Colonel T. E. "Lawrence of Arabia" to stir up the tribes. Therefore has not General Doihara's work in Manchuria, Japanese ask, been equally all right...
Twenty years ago Lowell Thomas was professor of oratory at Chicago's Kent College of Law. Ever since, he has been bustling about the earth, writing and talking profusely about what he has seen and heard. His gaddings took him through the War zones, to Palestine and Arabia, to the Peace Conference, to India with the Prince of Wales, through 5,000 miles of the first Army round-the-world flight (1924). His 20-odd books range geographically from With Lawrence in Arabia to Kabluk of the Eskimo...
Kendric N. Marshall '21, assistant in Government, introduced Copey not as "the teacher and the man" but as "the tradition, known from the wilds of Arabia to the plains of China where mothers still their babes with the word that Copey shall read to them if they are good...
Life a la Henri is one of those books that has a definite physical effect on the reader. C. M. Doughty's famed Arabia Deserta, for example, parches the tongue. Life a la Henri makes the tongue hang out, the mouth water...