Word: parthia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, Parthia & Rome. "If a modern westernizing world were to be unified peacefully," Toynbee said, "one could imagine, in 2002, a political map not unlike that of the Graeco-Roman world in A.D. 102, in which everything between Britain and India inclusive was gathered up in three empires-the empire in India and central Asia, the Parthian in Iran and Iraq, the Roman world round the Mediterranean. In form these three powers were all mutually independent, in reality the paramountcy of the Roman Empire was admitted by the other...
Manhattan dockworkers, who have seen nearly everything in their day, gaped last week as the Cunard liner Parthia began unloading her cargo. Out of the hold swung three new red double-decker London motorbuses; their sides were plastered with ads for English cigarettes, cars and marmalade: their Dunlop "tyres" were heavy-treaded. And No. 11, the leader of the big reds, still bore her route markings: "BUCKINGHAM PALACE RD. WESTMINSTER ABBEY, CHARING X (for Charing Cross), STRAND, ST. PAUL'S, LIVERPOOL STREET...
...Cunarder Parthia, tied up at a Manhattan dock last week, had "hot cargo" in her hold. A.F.L. longshoremen put the label on 2,500 packing cases marked "Chatka, Fancy." The cases held 88 tons of Russian crab meat...