Word: persian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancient Persian playing card painted in bright colors on a thin block of wood, and a pack with Braille markings for use by the blind are among the interesting items in a collection of rare cards, which has been bequeathed to the University by the late Albert Thorndike '81 of Boston...
...vast learning and unquenchable enthusiasm of James Henry Breasted built up the greatest archeological empire in the Near East, with a dozen armies of diggers at work all around the "Fertile Crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Nile Valley. So able was he in infecting other men with his passion that for Breasted and the University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little...
Samples: To leave no stone unturned (500 B.C.). Origins of this typical ancient proverb are shrouded in the past. Perhaps it refers to Greek crab-fishermen, perhaps to a legend of the Battle of Salamis, when a greedy Theban, digging fruitlessly for Persian treasure, was thus slyly advised by Delphi's oracle. To rob Peter to pay Paul (Wyclif, 1380). Still waters run deep (1430). A hair of the dog that bit you (1546). God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb (thought by many to be a Biblical quotation, by a more knowledgeable few the invention of Laurence...
...Harvard University were announced today by Edward W. Forbes, Director, in his annual report. Accessions included nine small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century B.C., a sixth-century Coptic frieze, and sixteen Roman Egypto-Roman terra cotta fligurines and fragments of Persian pottery...
Among the purchases were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...