Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Ickes' much-mooted Government-owned pipeline across Arabia (TIME, Feb. 14 et seq.) will probably die aborning...
Thus perished Wingate of the bushy beard, originator, trainer, brains and spark plug of the Burma Raiders. Wingate was one of those talented originals that some alchemy of British culture occasionally produces. Like Clive of India, "Chinese" Gordon, Lawrence of Arabia (a distant cousin), Wingate was an eccentric and an artist in unorthodox military operations...
...together. . . ." *A Loom example of German word order: "These by Th. Nöldeke, History of the Koran, Göttingen, 1860, for the first time put forward basic views on the language of the Koran are in K. Voller's Spoken and Written Language in Ancient Arabia, Strasbourg, 1906, by the wrong assumption, that the variant readings of the later Koran scholars, instead of [being] peculiarities of different dialects, rather only those of the original Koran language reflected, exaggerated, and distorted...
...plus drilling costs. And Oklahoma's Ickes-feuding Senator Edward H. Moore, home to help out fellow Republicans in this week's Congressional election, was quick to say the Cottingham showed what "American free enterprise" could do, without any newfangled Government pipelines in far-off Arabia...
...hundred miles west of Hafar-el-Ats, the U.S. presented Ibn Saud's Arabia with another, even more persuasive Lend-Lease cargo. At sweaty, sultry Jidda on the Red Sea, where legend has buried Eve and the main road runs to Mecca, an American freighter unloaded 7,000,000 silver coins (riyals), minted in Philadelphia and valued...