Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asserting that Robert Wadlow exceeds all giants in Medical History, Dr. Humberd escapes giving a direct lie to the Bible (Goliath, 9 ft. 9 in. ; KingOg of Bashan, 9 ft.) ; to Roman Pliny (who reported that an Arabian giant brought to Rome was 9 ft. 9 in. tall) ; to Jewish Josephus and Roman Vitellius (both reported a Jew named Eleazar...
...vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights. About 25 football-sized Aepyornis titan eggs exist in various museums. Not content with possessing one of the finest specimens known, Collector Ray last week declared his belief that his egg belongs to another and larger species than that represented by other eggs. If he is right his egg is unique...
This box was excavated by natives at Tell Abu-Maria, a village 20 miles west of Mosul. Another recent purchase is a collection of South-Arabian antiquities, including twelve short inscriptions on stone and small bas-reliefs on red sandstone...
Savage hand-to-hand battles in Madrid suburbs raged hotter every day as the week passed, and General Miaja announced with particular satisfaction that his Madrid machine guns had caught a wild Moorish charge by turbaned riders on Arabian steeds and mowed it down to the last horse and man. In the $25,000,000 University City founded by King Alfonso on the Capital's outskirts, fantastic conflicts raged among the modernistic buildings. Dispatches reported Madrid defenders gunning from behind books in the Philosophy library, selling their lives dearly among the Classics. In an international war, such as that...
Trotsky's son Syedov was called a money-passer. One of the prisoners said the conspirators in Moscow had given him to be carried to Syedov Trotsky in Berlin a copy of The Arabian Nights. "It served in some way which I do not remember as a secret code book," finished up Prisoner Holzmann, scratching his head with a puzzled...