Word: arabian
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...anchor at noon Sept. 15. When the Registan tied up at the Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week she had made the 10,000 mi. voyage in 25 days 19 hr., knocking a day off the previous record. By being first ship in port with 266,000 cases of new Arabian dates she added 1½? per Ib. to the value of her cargo, making the crates in her hold worth...
...Arabian Saudian Kingdom." Next he ordered suitable observances (but no unseemly rejoicing) in his twin capitals: Riyadh, where he was born, and Mecca, where Mohammed was born...
...strong, lone warrior like Arabian King Ibn Saud (see col. I) is his neighbor on the north, pliant King Feisal of Irak who leans like an unsteady reed on sturdy Britons...
...pleasant to recall," said British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, "that the new League member encloses within its boundaries the place which was once the Garden of Eden* as well as Bagdad of the immortal 'Arabian Nights.'" Sir John did not mention...
...Cultured Arabians consider Bagdad's so-called "Arabian Nights" a mere mess of dirty stories of no literary merit. First collected by a Frenchman, they were chaperoned into English literature by Sir Richard Burton, explore-translator who, like many a member of the Explorer's Club, had a taste for zestful tales...