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...sickening possibility of defeat. Fat effendis in tasseled tarbooshes and doublebreasted business suits were streaming from Jerusalem in new American sedans that swayed under the load of rolled-up Turkish rugs and bundled household goods. Their escape route led past Gethsemane and Bethany to the Dead Sea, through Jericho, across the shallow Jordan by Allenby Bridge to Arab Trans-Jordan; then, past caravans of sneering camels, to the crowded, expensive hotels of Damascus and Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Arrivals & Departures | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...gone. It is remarkable how many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford . . ." Meanwhile, Arab papers trumpeted minor troop shufflings as major victories. When a detachment of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion took positions around Jericho (under British commanders), one Beirut paper headlined: ABDULLAH'S ARMY STANDS BEFORE JERUSALEM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Arrivals & Departures | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Leverett's zone defense collapsed like the walls of Jericho in yesterday afternoon's basketball game at the Indoor Athletic Building, as Winthrop won a lop-sided battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Puritans Skin Bunnies In 51-25 Scoring Rout | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

...coated majority of the University Band, the marchers will assemble at 7 o'clock in front of John Harvard at University Hall, cross Massachusetts Avenue, and with horns transforming Cambridge into a Jericho, arrive at the scene of cheers, gridmen's speeches, and football orchestrations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Will Rally Tonight By Torchlight | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...Orleans Jazz (Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Band; Columbia, 8 sides). Strictly for New Orleans fans, this album includes barrelhouse (Bucket Got a Hole in It), stomp, blues and a shouting version of Joshua Fit de Battle of Jericho. Trombonist Ory sings two numbers in Creole French. The ensemble includes Barney Bigard on the clarinet. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Apr. 28, 1947 | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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