Word: ki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listened to your news reports given ki the form of questions on Thursday evening and was so well pleased I felt I must write and give you my opinion...
...specimens may be mentioned from the Babylonian-Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian...
...blocked kick in the last quarter gave Pittsburgh's sloppy team a victory after it had been badly outplayed all afternoon by Washington and Jefferson. Score: Pittsburgh 6, Washington and Jefferson 0. Not many people are conscious, perhaps, that the initials D. & E., ki-yi-ing in the tassel of a cheer, stand for Davis and Elkins, a college in West Virginia. Army Cadets last week heard those initials screeched at them by the supporters of a team which they barely managed to edge...
...dark young man, attired in pajamas of kingfisher-blue silk, smoking, with mannered nonchalance, a brown cigaret, was reclining among the pillows of a luxurious seabed. He responded amiably to their questions. Native American music . . . what did they mean by that? Most people, of course, meant the banal, monotonous ki-yiing of the American Indians?an absurd misconception. Indian music came from Asia. It is in no respect native. The music the rhythms of which are implicit in the movement of modern U. S. life has never been written. . . . Will jazz be its medium? . . . Perhaps...
...spite of official denials, a rumor continued to spread that Viscount Ki-kujiro Ishii, now Japanese Ambassador to France, and cosignatory with ex-Secretary of State Robert Lansing to the famed Lansing-Ishii pact,* was to succeed smiling Ambassador Masanao Hanihara at Washington...