Word: crescentic
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...wife is a concert singer), Author Young also composes, has written music for the Songs of Robert Bridges. Mild-mannered, quiet, spare, with a pipe usually in position above an unaggressive chin, Francis Brett Young looks his part: a quite successful, quite good English author. Other books: The Crescent Moon, My Brother Jonathan, The Redlakes...
...Breasted's Province. From the Persian Gulf up the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, then along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem lies a great "fertile crescent," skirting the Arabian Desert. By continuing the western tip of this crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile basin, a 3,500-mi. semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos...
High above a terraced garden facing the River Seine and the Eiffel Tower perches the huge, crescent-shaped Palais du Trocadéro built for the Paris Exposition of 1878. On Borah Night last week 8,000 people jammed the Trocadéro Auditorium. Huge banners strung around the balconies proclaimed that 1,043 delegates from peace societies in 30 lands had been gathered by the International Union of League of Nations Associations into this, a monster Peace & Disarmament Conference, an unofficial curtain-raiser for the League's World Disarmament Conference in Geneva next February. The trouble with last...
...spite of the goals that were tallied for Harvard by D.B. Dorman '32, Captain H.H. Broadbent '32, and D.M. Frame '32, the Pennsylvanians, victors this year over Germantown, Crescent, and Lehigh, succeeded by their swift running and passing to drive in the two extra winning points...
Today Baron & Baroness Shidehara delight chiefly in their smart sons, Michitaro (29), Shigeo (26), and in their unassuming, rock-gardened week-end home at Kamakura on the eastern tip of crescent-shaped Sagami Bay. On the western tip, thrillingly visible to the loyal Shideharas. is the summer home of the sublime Emperor Hirohito, 125th descendant of the Sun Goddess...