Word: mesopotamians
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...direction of S. (for Stanton) MacDonald-Wright,* the project has concentrated on outdoor murals befitting the climate. On view were striking murals in many mediums, notably mosaic, petrachrome (dyed concrete in which are mixed little stones of varied color), and terra cotta slabs in low relief (an early Mesopotamian medium in which no serious work has been done for 2,500 years...
...subways, concrete highways, pottery, glass, jewels, coins, some tools, the debris of machinery. The written records would have crumbled to dust, and the archeologists might conclude that the inhabitants of the present world were half-literate savages gifted with great engineering ability. But if future diggers explored the broad Mesopotamian valleys of the Euphrates and Tigris, in what is now Iraq, they would find thousands of clay tablets bearing the cuneiform writing of the ancient Sumerians, Assyrians and Babylonians. Deciphering these, the diggers would read of civilizations 3,000 years or more before the Christian era, would probably conclude that...
...chapters which tell what has been decoded from the tablets. Dr. Chiera gives a fascinating, chatty picture of the daily lives of the ancient Mesopotamian peoples, which he says are now better known than the ordinary lives of the later Greeks and Romans despite their elegant literature. Born to a Baptist minister in Italy in 1885, Dr. Chiera studied theology but plumped for archeology, joined the University of Chicago staff in 1927. Thin, slope-shouldered and bearded, he resembled the popular idea of a scientist, was noted for boundless energy and painstaking preciseness in his work...
...into fuel oil has been made commercially practicable in England. Long known, this process has been, until this summer, prohibitively expensive. By this rather sensational invention England is made more self-sufficient--the ancient British insularity is in part retrieved. No longer must the Navy depend entirely upon the Mesopotamian oil fields, and no longer will the coal mining industry languish under the threat of over-production and lack of market. British destiny may well hinge upon this one point--coals to Newcastle will become a moneymaking proposition. God save the King--though the rest of the world be falling...
...facing inevitable death at the hands of unseen enemies, are woven into "The Lost Patrol", a powerful screen play with Victor McLaglen, Boris Karloff, Reginald Denny, Alan Hale and other distinguished film luminaries. The story deals with a detachment of British cavalrymen who become aimless wanderers on the Mesopotamian desert when their officer is killed by Arabs. Only the officer knew where they were, what their orders were and when and where they were to rejoin their brigade. That knowledge died with him. The talking picture was adopted from the famous Philip MacDonald novel, "Patrol...