Word: nomad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Raising herds of reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps. Illiterate and uncivilized, they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week...
...Kalat differs from the other states of the Indian Empire," said Lord Willingdon from his Throne, "in that it is a confederacy of nomad tribes, closely akin to the khanates of Central Asia and the emirates of Arabia." This being so, His Excellency voiced special pleasure in greeting on behalf of George V and installing on the Kalat Throne a tall, white-robed nomad who advanced majestically and was hailed by the Viceroy with his full name and rank, "Mir Azam Jang Khan, Wali of Kalat and Khan of the Brahui Confederacy...
Reports of yesterday from the Harvard College Observatory state that on Wednesday evening close observations were made on a very brilliant blue-green meteor. Somewhat resembling a fireball, this celestial nomad floated very slowly down the southeastern sky at an angle of 45 degrees...
These phantoms appear to be led by one Plato, a philosopher of parts, and one of the world's Great Minds, as the Vagabond has heard. And Plato it is, who is the direct cause of the Nomad' discomfiture...
...Jews are the professedly sole remnants). Ishmael, born of Hagar, Sarah's Egyptian servant, was the elder. After Sarah's jealousy nagged Abraham into driving Hagar and her Ishmael into the wilderness, Ishmael became an archer, married an Egyptian girl, begot twelve sons who became ancestors of the Nomad tribes around Palestine from whom the Arabians are descended...