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Word: orientales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside the city, beyond its courts, its marble walls hushed above the water, brown men, appearing suddenly, hurried down crooked roads; racehorses with tiny loins and immense pointed legs whinnied and thumped in their stalls at the Oriental Park track; they smelled wind. Veterans at Camp Columbia, the Cuban Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Hurricane | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

It was not until 1764 that a third endowed professorship was established at Harvard. In that year Thomas Hancock, uncle of the hero of the Revolution, founded by the terms of his will, a professorship of Hebrew and other oriental languages. For this purpose he bequeathed 1,000 pounds sterling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professorships Perpetuate Memory of Founders Two Hundred Years Ago | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

With the addition of the "Head of an Oriental" and two scarce apostle series by Israhel van Meckenern, the Museum now owns a well-rounded collection of that famous craftsman's work, unrivalled except by the famous museum abroad.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM ACQUIRES VALUABLE ENGRAVINGS | 10/21/1926 | See Source »

His fashion of life did not dawdle behind his ambition. One could not receive congressmen or even mayors, bought and paid for, in a flat. D. C. Stephenson built a formidable house at Irvington. Decorators from Indianapolis did what they could for him; he sent to New York for clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KU KLUX KLAN: Gentlemen from Indiana | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

From 1879 to 1881, Dr. Bigelow was an instructor in surgery at the Harvard-Medical School. He became distinguished as an authority not only on surgical matters but also on Buddhism and Oriental religions.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIGELOW LEAVES ONE THIRD OF FORTUNE TO UNIVERSITY | 10/14/1926 | See Source »

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