Word: levant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Painter Robinson's murals are each about 15 ft. x 8 ft. Beginning with an animated commercial squabble between the Persians and the Arabs, they progress to Carthaginians in the Mediterranean striking a crafty bargain with the Egyptians. Venetians in the Levant when bartering was done with benefit of clergy so that polite thieving was sanctified. Subsequently they show the Portuguese in India, the Dutch in the Baltic, the English in China, slave traders and clipper ships in the 19th Century U. S.* The last is a generalized scene of modern industry- liners in a harbor, airplanes...
...Levant Trade 1500-1750", Professor Usher, Widener...
...them felt that they were approaching the goal as they listened to metallurgical discourses of the National Metal Congress held last week at Cleveland, the Foundry City.* Manganese-Molybdenum Steel. Hard and sharp were the Samurai swords of Japan, the Toledo blades of Spain, the Damascus cutlery of the Levant-because their steels contained small amounts of molybdenum. However, the presence of molybdenum was accident. Mineralogists did not recognize it as a metal until the 1790's. Metallurgists did not introduce its hardening properties to a steel alloy until very recently. Pure iron is a relatively soft metal...
...collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf or Sherwood Anderson in levant. Hardy and France? Perhaps...
Their coal tar red wrecked the business of Levant farmers who had been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...