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Word: chaldean (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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College of Propaganda. Last week the Pope attended graduation exercises in the 300-year-old College of Propaganda in Rome. The college, alma mater of polyglot gospellers, produced for the Pope's edification graduation speeches in 25 tongues and dialects. Among them: Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chaldean, Japanese, Siamese, Kaffir, Gaelic, Rumanian, Magyar. Said the Pope: he was pleased that God had glorified all these tongues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope's Week | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...College against the State of New Hampshire before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1819. He won the case when Chief Justice John Marshall handed down that famed decision prohibiting State interference with private charters and establishing the first great victory of the Federal Constitution over State rights. *Nebuchadnezzar, Chaldean King of Babylon (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

Operations are going on in Mesopotamia to unearth the city of Ur and the ruins of Chaldean civilization, antedating by several centuries the civilization of the Nile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Digging Up History | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

With the "revival of learning" again comes a revival of interest in shot guns, rifles, revolvers, automatics, alarm clocks, tin horns, and noise makers of every variety, including the ancient Chaldean instrument, the vox humana, to disturb the night air at about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/14/1922 | See Source »

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