Word: homeland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the campers radioed cheerful New Year's greetings to their homeland, despite a strong north wind, reported themselves relatively warm with the thermometer at 7.6° above...
...nearly 10,000 Jews crowded the auditorium of Zurich's vast Tonhalle to attend the 20th biennial World Zionist Congress. Never before has a Zionist congress had such a serious problem to discuss: the British scheme for the partition of Palestine which would divide Jewry's sentimental homeland into 1) a northern Jewish state, including most of Palestine's arable land, 2) a southern Arab state, 3) a kidney-shaped British strip including the port of Jaffa and the sacred city of Jerusalem (TIME, July 19, et ante...
Premier Mussolini during his Ethiopian campaign, not wishing to arouse public apprehension by returning so many Italian wounded to the homeland, hospitalized them on the Isle of Rhodes. In the Spanish adventure, apparently less afraid of public reaction, he has been quietly slipping his wounded "volunteers" into Naples harbor, consigning them to nearby base hospitals...
Spiritual descendants of old German Pietists were the members of the "Community of True Inspiration" who, hounded from their homeland, settled at Ebenezer, N. Y. in 1843. Outgrowing this home, the community trekked westward to Amana, where it acquired 26.000 acres of good farmland. The colonists built seven villages of unpainted German-style houses...
...back toward Orthodoxy, the delegates urged that all Reform synagogs employ cantors and all-Jewish choirs, singing Jewish music only, and resume use of the ancient Kiddush, a blessing before the evening meal to proclaim the holiness of the Sabbath. The Union, too, voted its faith in the Jewish homeland, praising the Jewish Agency-to which Zionists and non-Zionists subscribe-for its activities: "We see the hand of Providence in the opening of the gates of Palestine for the Jewish people at a time when a large portion of Jewry is so desperately in need of a friendly shelter...