Word: chaldean
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...Fogg Museum, which has brought on some unusually fine exhibitions during the winter, has opened a small but exceptional exhibit of Chaldean objects of art. One is astounded to learn that such exquisite workmanship should be the relic of a civilization stretching into the dimness of pre-Biblical days along the Tigris and Euphrates. These articles, which archaeologists have unearthed in a state of excellent preservation, give a vivid portrayal of the former life in Ur of the Chaldees...
...dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children "of silence and slow time" the lessons which are still fresh from antiquity. The Greek civilization seems old, but the Chaldean revelations of the archaeologists are as old again. Yet, notwithstanding the lapse of time, art was even then one of the most enduring and permanent recorders of history...
...Mediterranean. Halfway between Persia and Egypt, near Loadikies, an old Greek colony, F. A. Schaeffer and Georges Chenet, French archeologists, found the unwieldy schoolbooks of a forgotten university. The books were clay tablets 4,000 years old covered with language lessons in four tongues: Assyro-Chaldean cuneiforms, the language of old time diplomats; Sumerian, the language of scientists; Phoenician, the language of the maritime merchants; and an unknown tongue. Other tablets had Egyptian and Hittite inscriptions. Where the schoolbooks were found, according to the inscriptions which scientists could read, existed a University City called Zapuna, a midpoint joining Mycenaean, Egyptian...
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...
...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...