Word: mesopotamia
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...cent scheduled trips finished, with a lower accident average than any other branch of transportation. Only a day or so ago the story came of a plane carrying a doctor two hundred and fifty miles to an island in Lake Michigan to save a man's life. In Mesopotamia aeroplanes are being used systematically by the British for the collection of taxes. This last is perhaps not an evidence of progress, for it is reported on Kemalist authority that the good work has consisted in the bombing of villages to enforce payment and that five British machines have been brought...
...Turkey, despite its defeat in the European war, will appear substantially as the victor of Europe. Mistress of extended and rich territories from the Aegean and the Mediterranean, from Syria and Mesopotamia to the Black Sea and Russia, and allied with the Moslem world toward the east, and the Bolsheviks to the north, and possibly Bulgaria or Hungary to the west, Turkey will be in a position to defy any friendly recommendations or threats on the part of any Christian country. In fact, it is possible that Turkey may become the center of an eastern military federation, which would prove...
...international mind" through the spoken word. When the courses which are announced to begin next Monday are in progress, there will be a wider representation of tongues than occurred at Pentecost, for in this ancient historic polyglot assemblage no tongue was represented from regions more remote from Jerusalem than Mesopotamia and Asia Minor and Egypt, with the exception of "sojourners from Rome"; whereas the Columbia courses are practically planetary in their scope. They are extension courses in a double sense, embracing as they do the following spoken languages: Armenian, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian...
...said that Mesopotamia was little known to Americans, but that is a country of great natural resources, and that as yet it was practically undeveloped. Except along the courses of the rivers the country is a desert, but there are many recently discovered oil fields which are now being used by France and England. It is in this barren area that the Desert-Arabs, the remnants of the original inhabitants of the country, live. Wandering about the desert in tribes, they consider themselves the highest class socially of all the people of the country. They have an especially deep hatred...
...regard to the mandate recently issued to Great Britain by the League of Nations, giving exclusive rights to the commercial advantages of Mesopotamia to members of the League, Mr. Roosevelt stated that the English were very fair with the other nations in the control of the oil fields, and that at the present time France shared equally in the commercial privileges of the country...