Word: persian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pride, Molly, Gloria, Silver Top and Silver Tail were two Irish setters, a cocker spaniel and two Persian cats, all in fine condition. Dying Mrs. Winterman told Veterinary White that she had cared so much for the animals she scarcely ever allowed them out of the grounds or permitted them to become acquainted with anybody. They would be unhappy with anyone but her, she said...
...routes, its 300,000 sandy square miles have challenged and beaten back explorers since the Middle Ages. No European had seen its mysterious, lethal interior until this winter hardy Englishman Bertram Thomas trekked 900 mi. across its arid wastes, from Dhofar on the Arabian Sea to Dohah on the Persian Gulf, where he emerged last week and told his story...
Emissaries from His Majesty (who 16 years ago was a private soldier) were in Paris last week. In their entourage was a group of French and Dutch jewel experts who have just examined, catalogued, appraised the Persian Crown Jewels at Teheran...
...scathing letters to airline officials on the difficulty of typing or studying in their planes. In Persia he is intimate with the Shah, risks his life almost daily photographing mosques and sacred tombs.* Last April Archeologist Pope decided that what the U. S. needed was an American Institute for Persian Art & Archeology, to do learned digging in Per sia, provide scholarships, publish mono graphs. In a few weeks he had dazzled such tycoons and pundits as Mortimer Leo Schiff, Professor Arthur Kingsley, Dr. William R. Valentiner, Percy R. Pyne Jr., Frank Crowninshield, George Dwight Pratt, into accepting posts...
...convince the Royal Academy of the desirability of a Persian exhibition was child's play. Maintenance of friendly relations with Persia and Afghanistan are vital to Britain's defense of India. Persia has added British importance as the site of enormously rich British-controlled oil fields...