Word: nineveh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made strangely new by unexpected flashes of modern psychology analyzing Jonah's weakness and his strength, by the scene inside the belly of the whale, in which the whale out of consideration for Jonah's position has had nothing to drink, or the scene at the Hotel Baal in Nineveh, where the Lady chairman of the Semiramis Club, a sort of women's Rotary, a part ably acted by Miss Evelyn Stern, speaking of the post-war generation of young people with their fondness for mixed Greek wines and Ethiopian music, calls upon the Prophet from his far-flung battle...
Persia & Irak. "And the trees that bear wool I clipped." So wrote Sennacherib, king of the Assyrians seven centuries before Christ. His wool-bearing "trees" were the earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found...
...Babylon and Nineveh and ancient Rome," cried he, "wallowed in the wealth of material prosperity, stood naked and unashamed in their perdition?and suc- cumbed. But the human lamp posts of Xero. the men, women and children thrown to the lions at the Colosseum for a Roman holiday, gave us the artesian springs of Christianity that rule the world, while the splendors of Rome are almost forgotten memories...
...Still, this was nothing new. Men have marched so down the ages. They marched in Athens and Nineveh and Marathon, fighting their various Armageddons...
...Telephone & Telegraph Co.) will offer for sale a set of 20 one-reel sound pictures produced in the Physical Sciences Department at Chicago. The pictures will show detailed scientific experiments, synchronized with lectures by Chicago professors. Subjects include: the flow of protoplasm in plant & animal life, the excavations of Nineveh and Megiddo, the heartbeat of a dog. Price for the set will be $1,400 including projector. The university will receive no profit beyond publicity. Not intended to take the place of professors or to reduce teaching time, the films are planned as addenda to regular instruction in institutions...