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Word: menen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wisdom and prosperity exccedeth the fame which I heard" (I Kings 10: 7). From that thirst, according to Abyssinian legend, sprang the line of the present Emperor Haile Selassie ("Power of Trinity") of Abyssinia. From it too sprang his wife and second cousin once removed, the present Empress Waizeru Menen. Last week she followed her ancestress Sheba to Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Shcba to Jerusalem | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

...throne (TIME, Oct. 8, 1928). As he tyrannically and ably rules his hot-blood-swilling Abyssinians (meaning "mixed peoples") he is careful to keep always on his gaudiest full-dress behavior toward the Occident. By way of reminding Europe of his highly Biblical pedigree he sent Empress Waizeru Menen to the Holy Land last week to visit its chief Christian shrines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Shcba to Jerusalem | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

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