Word: nile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Archeologists have long supposed that the site lay somewhere near the modern town of Heliopolis, a Cairo suburb. But Professor Herman Junker, in a recent Berlin lecture, advanced a new theory: he had found an old tomb inscription placing Heliopolis near Helwan, an ancient town on the Nile south of Cairo. He advised Egyptologists to dig in a large necropolis (cemetery), well-known to archeologists, near Helwan...
From Cairo last week came new evidence that ancient temples of the Nile Valley are threatened with ruin. The threat comes not from war but from the measured plans of peace. Diverted by the elaborate network of dams and canals developed early in this century by the British to irrigate parched cottonfields, the waters of the Nile have been gradually washing away the foundations of some of Egypt's most famous monuments...
...Cairo. In an ornate salon on the main floor, delegates from six of the seven Arab states sat on the brittle insecurity of Louis Quinze chairs, stalked haughtily across priceless Iranian rugs. They had met to draw up a constitution for a federation of all Arab lands, from the Nile to the Euphrates...
...University of California talked of Liberty scholarships, open only to World War II veterans, in memory of graduates who have died in battle. The Iowa City (la.) Junior Chamber of Commerce was hard at work on a $50,000 scholarship fund in honor of Nile Kinnick, Iowa's 1939 All-America halfback, who was killed in action...
...members. Their activities range from sports to classes in stenography, from providing board & room for city working girls to running summer vacation camps for youngsters. Currently the Y.W. is hard at work in war zones, with some 20 rest and recreation centers (including a houseboat on the Nile at Cairo) which provide servicewomen with such occasional luxuries as breakfast in bed, hairdressers, tearooms...