Word: assyrian
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...Assyria, and was inscribed in cuneiform characters about the year 800 B. C. It contains three columns: The first is the mysterious music; the second, in archaic Sumerian, an account of the creation of Man from the blood of the gods; the third, a translation of this into Assyrian...
...Spazzums" Tricycles, Deferential Dukes The Story. Despite his flat, black, curly beard, which gave him the appearance of an Assyrian bas-relief, Mr. Heath started out in life as headmaster of a typical English parish school at South Barnet. He invested in a tricycle, to facilitate his trips from home to school. And he might have tricycled himself and his numerous family right out of this story, had it not been for his "accident." The tricycle hit a rock one day, gave him a nervous breakdown from which, according to himself, he never recovered. From the day of the accident...
...Anglo-Pennsylvania expedition at Ur of the Chaldees, under C. Leonard Woolley, has made progress in revealing the great temple of the Moon God and his consort, erected by early Sumerian kings about 3,600 B. C., and remodeled by Nebuchadnezzar, the Assyrian conqueror, more than a score of centuries later...
...been said, that Mr. McFee writes about the sea. This is really a very incomplete estimate of his range, for he wanders about, the world of men and geography quite indiscriminately, drawing upon all varieties of material for his subjects. Now an Assyrian restaurant proprietor seizes his attention; a moment later, he will be discussing the latest New York "best seller". His scope is indefinite. Nor is he a vague romantic, blinded by fancy to the disagreeable realities of situations and personality, for he treats each new topic with a calculating steadiness that is pleasing, as much in its solid...
...Museum. In 1906 he went to Samaria to undertake excavations there, and discovered the earliest specimens of writing ever found in Palestine. Four years later he assumed the Hancock professorship upon the retirement of his colleague, Professor Toy. He has given courses at the University in the Hebrew and Assyrian languages and in Old Testament History, and has long been recognized as a leading authority in his field...