Word: persia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still the long spiky bristle of the mandarin, was worried. When he heard how the naked chin of Peter gleamed blue and shameless in his new palace, Petersburg, upon the Neva, he sent him a fine rug as one who would say: In mystery the twig is bent...
...victims, told that U. S. travelers were responsible for a record week of flying between London and Paris -1,539 passengers in 183 machines, with 35 tons of freight and baggage. Despatches from Germany announced extension of the European air mail network to reach Teheran, capital of Persia; a through route from Europe to Mesopotamia; a projected passenger service from Berlin clear across Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers and crew-will be carried inside...
...Nineteen nations have returned simple "acknowledgments" without comment. (France, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Denmark, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...Girl mothers are dying like flies in Egypt and Persia through the lack of necessary legislation. In other countries girls are denied equal opportunities for education. Again, in many countries women are having a terrific fight for the vote. Yet the Woman's Party would make the issue of equal industrial rights of paramount importance under such conditions. It is ridiculous...
...diplomacy, national honor, and the press. He shows how these factors were at work since 1870 in Europe. He sketches the formation of the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. He goes deeper into such specific causes for unrest as Morocco, the annexation of Bosnia, Tripoli, the Bagdad Railway, Persia, the Far East, and the Balkan wars...