Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South East Asia Tour...
Among other tours listed are excursions into Southeast Asia, conducted by the International Student Service, and "Art Appreciation," "Music Appreciation," and "Classical Background" tours managed by the Bureau of University Travel...
...Unknown Tongue. Some relics of the ancients are wrapped, not in the mud, but in the deeper mystery of a still-untranslated language. The big-nosed Hittites (Sons of Heth in the Bible), who dominated Asia Minor from earliest biblical times, left stone-cut inscriptions so numerous and so lengthy that they seemed likely to contain plenty of ancient history. But since the diggers lacked a key to the stiff hieroglyphic characters, all they could do was bite their learned nails and hope that a key stone would turn up eventually...
...born archeologist famed for his triumphs among the ruins of Persepolis; of cancer; in Basel, Switzerland. Herzfeld dug for four years in & around the ancient Persian capital (burned by Alexander the Great in 330 B.C.), in 1933 unearthed sculpture believed to be the earliest specimens of art discovered in Asia, found a nearly perfectly preserved Stone Age village containing the earliest known windows, murals and household pottery...
What's more, "U.S. meteorologists have been perhaps the most productive in the world" in recent years. More international exchange of weather information, Reichelderfer admitted, would be helpful-particularly from Asia, South America and the Arctic. And on the whole, U.S. predictions are certainly not yet good enough: "That's about what we often say around here...