Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi's press bureau amplified his statements by pointing out that the world's 6,000,000 slaves are in Ethiopia, Liberia, China and Moslem nations; that 2,000 slaves a year are taken from Africa across the Red Sea to be sold in Arabia...
Endemic in China, India, Arabia and California, the Black Death killed 60,000,000 people in the 14th and 15th Centuries. In 1665 it devastated London, was graphically described by Daniel Defoe in his Journal of the Plague Year...
...sporting rather than historical. After schooling at St. Paul's, Mr. Moore joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia. He was a major in the U. S. Army during the War. Afterward, he entered his father's tool manufacturing firm of Manning. Maxwell & Moore, became its president...
...there is no Persian with whom one can effectively negotiate except the King of Kings, ingratiating Dr. Rushdi sounded His Majesty on the great project of a Middle Eastern Alliance, a bloc to be constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi's dream. And last week the King of Kings had left Persia for the first time since he seized the Peacock Throne in 1925 to discuss both Moslem dreams and realities with his Turkish neighbors...
...drop its impending war with Colombia over the Leticia territory (TIME, Feb. 6, 1933-et seq.) had laid in 1,200 three-inch shells, eight rangefinders and a few cases of machine gun cartridges. Further to impress his adversary Yahya the Imam of Yemen. King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia had just put in an order for 2,000,000 British rifle cartridges...