Word: orientale
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The additions made to the Oriental Department of the Fogg Museum during the past year, and just recently put on exhibition, are especially significant, the directors have announced. Hitherto unobtainable objects have been acquired through the work of Harvard excavators or as gifts from friends.
The new Willys-Knight plant in Los Angeles is significant of the Oriental demand for U. S. automobiles; significant, also, as a reminder that Los Angeles, world cinema capital, boasts many an industry not connected with the pictures. Goodyear, Goodrich and Firestone plants have made Los Angeles a tire centre...
Even wiliest Oriental priests and brigands were baffled, last week, by the double and triple crossing executed by Amanullah of Afghanistan. Was he still king or wasn't he? As first unfolded by the world press, the story was of deceptive simplicity. It was a good story, too, for...
Dunster's first curriculum was an ambitious one, including not only Greek and Hebrew but other oriental languages, in which he was himself a noted scholar. He adopted the thrifty expedient of having a student translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into Greek at morning prayers, and the New Testament...
The doings of Walter P. Chrysler, already prodigious, now became fabulous. People said that this torpedo-headed dynamo from Detroit with the smile like Walter Hagen's and the sensitive sophistication in oriental rugs, was building up a facsimile and four-square competitor of mighty General Motors Corp. and...