Word: camels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a Tebu rides a camel, he takes off his drawers to save wear and tear, and hangs them upon the camel's neck...
...second Fogg Museum archaeological expedition to Western China is now in Pekin, preparing for a long journey to the interior provinces by cart and camel. America has lagged behind in Asiatic research, and only now is undertaking to train young men in Asiatic study and to give them field work and opportunities of thorough research...
...their absolute numerical ratio. And in the field of polities it is conceivable that Abraham Lincoln may counterbalance several thousand college-bred members of Congress. We face the old anti-eugenic doubt arising from the considerable role played in the history of the race by the sons of carpenters, camel-drivers and ne'er-do-well pioneers. New York Times...
...Needle's Eye," after a recital of recent events in the Rockefeller family, you say (Page 18, foot of first column), "The parable is one that has often been quoted with smug exultation in needy homes, in great houses with lamentable quakings. It has to do with a camel, a rich man's son, Heaven, the eye of a needle." And further on, middle of next column, you repeat: "Mr. Rockefeller is familiar with the parable about the rich...
...evidently are not. For the text reads (Mark x:25), "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom...