Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vast learning and unquenchable enthusiasm of James Henry Breasted built up the greatest archeological empire in the Near East, with a dozen armies of diggers at work all around the "Fertile Crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Nile Valley. So able was he in infecting other men with his passion that for Breasted and the University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little...
...what the political system of the United States really is. The article in this month's issue handles the prep schools roughly in several places, as it is well it should, but in gloomily comparing them to the English institutions of their class Fortune wilfully ignores the wide gulf between the characters of the two countries...
...great convenience to the world's shipping but before it was built in 1859, Britain's great Lord Palmerston saw it as a potential menace to the British Empire. On the open seas Britain was supreme. The Suez Canal meant a shortcut waterway from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Aden* requiring, if Britain was to control it, immensely involved politics. It meant that Britain, if she could not block the building of the Suez Canal, must at least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then a vassal state of the Turkish...
...blacks look brown. If any of them had neglected to shave before breakfast, he could have accepted the free-shave offer of the research man for Schick Dry Shaver, Inc who shaves twelve men everyday to learn what he can about beard problems. ¶ At Harmarville, Pa., near Pittsburgh Gulf Refining Co.'s research subsidiary has built a group of roomy, attractive buildings for its colony of scientists. Most of the touring businessmen had heard of modern oil prospecting by "artificial"' earthquakes and other geophysical methods. At Harmarville they saw how it was done. A charge of dynamite...
...still under martial law last week. Nevertheless a metal plant was bombed. Elsewhere in the U. S. Labor showed its teeth. Following the assassination of a Kansas City truckmen's organizer, all Kansas City building trades unionists called a one-day demonstration strike. More important, 9,000 Gulf Coast stevedores walked out in an effort to force union recognition at New Orleans and raise the general wage scale...