Word: armenians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This Small Boy." Lazarus Agagianian (pronounced ah-gah-jahn-yan) was born 62 years ago in what is now Soviet Georgia, is a member of the Uniate group of Armenian Christians.* Agagianian was so bright as a child that his instructors in Tiflis sent him to Rome when he was only eleven to study at the Urban College of the Propagation of the Faith. The college rejected him because of his youth, but before he was sent home little Lazarus was permitted to join a group audience with St. Pope Pius X (canonized in 1954), who noticed him and predicted...
Magic Money. Gulbenkian was an Armenian, but he did not rise from rugs to riches. His father. Sarkis. was a prosperous kerosene importer in suburban Constantinople. Calouste adopted an old Arab proverb as his first business maxim while palm-priming the sultan's retinue with baksheesh: "The hand you dare not bite, kiss it." Priming himself with a civil engineering degree at London's King's College, Calouste visited the Baku oilfields in 1888, and in his 20th year wrote an authoritative book on the Baku petroleum industry. It was the overture to decades of what Gulbenkian...
...current court case concerning the construction of the Armenian Holy Trinity Church on Brattle St. may establish the limits of local communities' authority in applying zoning regulations to religious and educational institutions...
According to a member of the firm, the Armenian Church is pursuing two courses in attempting to secure permission for a structure which violates the Cambridge zoning regulation for building height by approximately 30 feet...
...effort to establish the precedent of whether the University, as a "public charitable organization," is exempt from Cambridge zoning restrictions, Harvard has offered the services of its law firm to the Armenian Holy Trinity Church, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...