Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change of seasons. Through rifts in the cloud veil, he discerns great blue-black patches which by spectroscopic analysis he finds, with croaks of envy, to be oceans of water. Heavily wooded areas look dark to him and he has difficulty distinguishing them from the oceans. The Sahara and Arabian Deserts look fairly bright, the clouds three times brighter still. In the African spring he sees the Nile valley turn dark with new vegetation. But unless his instrument is considerably more powerful than telescopes on Earth, he can see of man's handiwork not a trace...
...British are so under the thumb of the Zionists that they have forgotten the elementary facts of good administration in Palestine," said George Antonius, noted Arabian student of the Near East in a speech in Adams House last night...
...stated that the situations in the various Mandates were having their repercussions in the other Arabian-speaking parts of the world. The sense of solidarity which exists between all Arabic-speaking peoples, he explained, was the result of a Nationalist movement which has been in progress for a hundred years...
...Antonius gave a summary of the history of the Arabian people to show how so many different racial types should have the same culture. He then told of the growth of the Nationalist movement which began as a revival of the early literature and culture and later took on an increased political complexion
George Antonius, one of the few Arabian members of the British Secretariat, well-known for his political knowledge of the Near Eastern situation, will be a guest of James P. Baxter '26, associate professor of History, at a dinner in Adams House this evening...