Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special express car of the Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...
...school in the Caucasus he learned that no Mohammedan could enter the Russia's Imperial Naval Academy. His passionate desire to understand the difference between the Moslem and Christian worlds won him two doctorates, taught him to speak, in addition to his native Turkish, Russian, Persian, German, French, English. Before going to Detroit he had been curator of Oriental art at National museums in Vienna and Istanbul. In 1931 he, like Dr. Pope, went to work on the second great exhibition of Persian art in London...
...Christian Science, 75; Lutheran, 70; Christian Faith, 43; Quakers, 27; Reformed Church, 18; Greek Orthodox, 17; Latter Day Saints, 11; Swedenborgian, 7; Ethical Culture, 7; Dutch Reformed, 7; Evangelical Church, 5; Church of Brethren, 6; Community Church, 4; Buddhist, 4; Seventh Day Adventists, Russian Orthodox, Union Church, Hindu, Moslem, two each; Calvary Reformed, Church of God, Free Church, Federated Church, Mennonite, Orthodox, Calvinist, Modern Humanist, Liberal, Buchanan, Albanian Orthodox, Moravian Universalist, Disciples of Christ, Christendom, Pentecostal, one each...
Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi's press bureau amplified his statements by pointing out that the world's 6,000,000 slaves are in Ethiopia, Liberia, China and Moslem nations; that 2,000 slaves a year are taken from Africa across the Red Sea to be sold in Arabia...
...Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...