Word: egypt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Giza, Egypt, Dr. George A. Reisner's Harvard-Boston expedition (TIME, March 23, 1925) effected entrance to a burial chamber near the Pyramid of Cheops; deduced from the disposition of furniture and the human remains that it was the reburial place of Cheops' father or mother. Out of a pious desire to have his parent near him in death, the son had moved them...
...thousands of corncobs remaining from meals eaten by the prehistoric salt-miners, and hundreds of quids of a gummy plant chewed between meals. The explorers hoped to find mummies in this cave, the saline air of which might have preserved them better than all the oils and ointments of Egypt. The artifacts found seemed to date Pueblo Grande before the Aztec culture which Cortez and other Spaniards found flourishing in Mexico and the Southwest in the 16th Century...
Last week the Egyptian Cabinet refused this offer. Mr. Rockefeller, patient, let it stand. He had accepted a form for his deed of gift drawn up by the Egyptian Cabinet itself; yet when it was returned to Egypt with his signature attached, Egyptian political stumbling-blocks barred its acceptance. Mr. Rockefeller waits...
...year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...
Returning to London, "der alte Jude" tish-toshed with the Queen, billet-douxed his grandmothers-in-love, plunged into affairs with Egypt, Afghanistan, South Africa. But death, defeat and Gladstone were upon him. In the elections in 1880, Gladstone introduced stump oratory to British democracy. Through his campaign in the constituency of Midlothian he appealed to the country. Economy for those at home, freedom for oppressed nations abroad-finance and Christian idealism?these were his two topics. In the battle of Midlothian, he temporarily buried Disraeli's glory under an unprecedented Liberal victory. "Nothing more than trouble and trial await...