Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment?wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...
...north by Turkey, on the south by Palestine and Transjordania, on the east by Iraq and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea) is held by France under mandate from the League of Nations (confirmed July 23, 1922) and is composed of five states. The states of Damascus in the south, of Aleppo in the north, of Alaouite in the east form the Syrian Federation; the two remaining states of Jebel Druze in the south and Great Lebanon on the west coast are autonomous...
...struggle is that the Fundamentalists, having failed to force a creed on either the Northern or Southern Baptist conventions, are now trying to capture control of missionaries, and missionary doctrine, thus assuring the future of Fundamentalism in at least one section of the Baptist Church. St. Paul journeyed to Damascus on much the same kind of a heresy hunt...