Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could supply only 165,500 bbls. of a 300,000 bbl. order from Esso Export. W.C. Connel of the B.P. (British Petroleum ) Trading Co. wired that British companies wanting to buy 3,000,000 bbls. on the Gulf Coast were forced to divert their tankers around Africa to the Persian Gulf because "there is no assured supply of crude...
Even the "cultural autonomy" is a facade behind which the native tongues and customs are dying out. All books are translated into Russian; almost no Usbeck or Persian versions of the poets are available...
Panofsky denied this, asserting that, "not 'til 1615 was Mithras' classical role really rediscovered. Even the Renaissance had no idea of the true signicance of those Roman reliefs which we have learned to understand as the representatives of the Persian Mithras," he said...
...three months' work had turned to talk of six months' or more. Once the work is under way, salvage experts hope to clear a shallow channel for ships of 25-ft. draft in a few weeks. Then tankers plying the cape route to Europe from the Persian Gulf could take a short cut through Suez on the empty return trip, cut their time by 25% and costs proportionately...
...through the cold, black night to bring the news to a last outpost of civilization. "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," is the popular adaptation of Herodotus' words, which, although certainly discriminatory towards Persian messengers, has been inscribed atop the main Post Office Building in New York City...