Word: beirut
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...
When the California anchored off Beirut, a month ago, 50 males and 140 females of her 400 passengers were booked for the optional trip to Damascus. Resolutely curious, they feared not rebels, waited with calm expectancy for their tour manager, Mr. Robert Grinsel, to disperse the heathen who barred their way. He, resourceful, secured from the resident French commander at Beirut an armed motor convoy and an armored train. Ninety-five of the tourists motored in trucks bristling with machine guns. The rest entrained behind stout armor plates from which bristled French 75's. No sooner were they quartered...
...rest of his fortune he left to his family, friends, and servants. His elder son, Bayard Dodge, is President of the American University in Beirut, Syria, which began as a missionary enterprise and to which the late Mr. Dodge gave much. $20,000,000 was the estimated value of the estate...
Married. Rev. Daniel Bliss, son of the late Dr. Howard Bliss, President of the American University at Beirut, Syria, and John Albert Wilson, both instructors at the University of Beirut; respectively but simultaneously to the two daughters of Rev. Frederick T. Rouse of Worcester, Mass. Winifred Rouse was principal of a preparatory school at Beirut. Mary Rouse was a medical researcher at the University of Beirut...
...through both Americas (only three cases in the year). 4) Malaria-proved that paris green prevents breeding of malaria-carrying mosquitoes. 5) Medical Education-gave money to U. S. universities or schools at Toronto, London, Copenhagen, Prague, Warsaw, Belgrade, Zagreb, Budapest, Trinidad, Sao Paolo, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Brussels, Utrecht, Strasbourg, Beirut, Singapore, Bankok, Montreal, Peking. 6) Nursing-help to training schools in U. S., China, Brazil, France, Jugoslavia and Poland. 7) Biology-aid to Johns Hopkins, Yale, Iowa State. 8) Fellowships- to 842 men and women from 44 different countries. 9) League of Nations-traveling expenses of 128 health officers from...