Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...risk insurance has kited shipping costs skyward. Britain is harder pressed than ever for shipping space, and has not enough warships to safeguard her own sea lanes. Yet the Moslem faithful of India this week set sail for Mecca in British ships, convoyed by the Royal Navy, paying pre-war fares ($52 for deck space, $186 first class) for the privilege. Government subsidies will offset any possible loss to the shipowners. In his resting place (halfway between heaven and earth), Mohammed the Prophet was doubtless gratified...
Digging a well in lonely northern Texas late in 1880, an oldtime settler sipped its water, spit it out in puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...
...sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest-growing region: the South...
Methodist Bishop Yoshimune Abe let his words speak louder than silence. Bishop Abe, reported Harold Edward Fey in last week's Christian Century, regularly worships at the great imperial shrine of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami at Ise, the Mecca of Shintoism, declares that "every Japanese should go ... for it is a holy place." When Bishop Abe was raised to the episcopate last October, wrote Mr. Fey, "almost his first act was to visit a pagan shrine for worship...
Apropos of the review last week of Toscanini's recording of the Beethoven Fifth, lest you think us presumptuous, here is a review from the Gramophone Record Shop in New York City, Mecca and Delphic Oracle for classical record buyers...