Word: arabic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years the firm of Kouchakji Frères has had a practical monopoly on excavations on the site of ancient Antioch, the city in Asia Minor where Christians were first called by that name. In 1910 a party of Arab workmen who had often been employed by the Kouchakjis came upon a heap of buried treasure that contained, among other things, a cross, three book covers and two chalices all of silver and all of excellent workmanship. The finders, with a shrewd idea of their worth, traded cross, covers and chalices to a syndicate of Arab merchants, who after...
After its capture Aduwa showed little evidence of fighting, none of bombing. The muddy streets were swept clean, festooned with flags and triumphal arches of branches. Just outside the town General de Bono changed from his automobile to the back of a skittish little Arab charger, rode through the streets and to the parade ground beyond the town. There he reviewed 11,000 of his men, dedicated the monument whose erection was the first move of the invading Italians...
...warfare, written by a sensitive, philosophical Englishman who had exceptional opportunities to observe it, they found Seven Pillars of Wisdom a rewarding study. In it brisk and tumultuous accounts of battles and raiding parties alternate with dark passages of soul-searching and doubt, with plainly unscientific generalizations of Arab customs and beliefs...
...Arab revolt that Lawrence directed, and for whose success he received credit, was in the making long before he arrived in Arabia. When Lawrence, in order to get to Arabia, engineered his release from work in the intelligence service in Cairo, the Arabian revolt had prematurely broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those...
...today are its only officers and directors. And his grandsons hold such key jobs as sales-manager, purchasing agent, head of manufacturing, manager of Canadian plants. President Herbert Jenkins Brown, like most of the Browns, lives modestly in Portland. His brother William Robinson was once a breeder of Arab horses. All Browns have gone to Williams since President Herbert graduated in the Class...