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Word: muscat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt's desk, when reporters trooped into his office one day last week, lay a wicked-looking gold-handled seven-inch knife-a "yataghan," presented to him by the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. Said the President, waving it over his head: "I can put it in the wall at 30 paces." Replied New York Daily News Reporter Doris Fleeson: "How far down Pennsylvania Avenue can you throw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Yataghans at 15 Blocks | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Misplaced Muscat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...TIME [March 14] correct in placing Muscat on the Persian Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

TIME'S National Affairs researchers were woolgathering. Muscat is on the Gulf of Oman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Muscat, young Sultan Saiyid Said bin Taimur has a $225,000-a-year salary, a harem with many wives, a Ford car which he drives up & down the barren country's sole 30-mile highway. His Highness Saiyid Said bin Taimur has ruled since 1932 when at his coming of age his father, who hated his job so much that he stayed in Muscat only one month a year, abdicated, retired to Japan. Having amazed Washington for three days last week, Sultan Saiyid Said removed his robes, put on street clothes, departed for New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Sultan Muskrat | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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