Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among continents Europe was most favored, by 372 "Acts of God." Other continents and regions: Asia 144 Africa 49 North America 112 Oceania 31 South America 55 Central America...
...following program will be played at the Pops concert tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: French Military March Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Excerpts from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz On the Steppes of Central Asia Borodin "Fountains of Rome," symphonic poem Respigli Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni Dance of the Waves Catalani Overture to Silican Vespers Verdi
...Conferred with Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey of Turkey concerning a new commercial treaty which is expected to provide the opening wedge for Italian commercial penetration in Asia Minor...
...distant crannies of the globe. Harvard will furnish a site for a laboratory on its campus; its faculty and students will help in putting the films together. Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers, zoologists, geologists, anthropologists applauded the idea...
...Council will attempt to discover and to state the spiritual values of non-Christian systems of religion; it will review Confucianism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Islamism from a sympathetic point of view. Then it will try to reach a more profound understanding of interdependence between the younger Churches, especially in Asia, and the older Churches. Another topic to be considered is the impact of industrialism upon Asia and Africa. These are questions which have often been discussed before, though perhaps never by a group so well equipped to arrive at satisfactory answers. This is a council of commanders, a council primarily...