Word: phoenician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side is president and half-owner of York Oil Burner Co., maintains that Mr. Atlas' "dynamic tension" is "dynamic hooey." Pressed for a definition of "hooey" at FTC hearings last spring, Mr. Hoffman with no hesitation explained that he had traced the word back to the Phoenicians "about 4,000 years before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into a food similar...
...Discovery of a Phoenician City and of its Literature at Ras Shamra" will be the subject for Wednesday, March 18, when Robert H. Pfeiffer, Curator of the Semitic Museum, will lecture. Dows Dunham '14, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, will deliver the last lecture on Friday, March 20 on "The Unplundered Tomb of an Egyptian Queen (Hetepheres...
Wednesday, March 18--"The Discovery of a Phoenician City and of its Literature at Ras Shamra." Professor Robert H. Pfeiffer, of Harvard University...
...first built in the 15th Century B.C., when southern Palestine was under the political sway and religious influence of Egypt. Most valued find was a ewer inscribed with characters like magnifications of bizarre microbes. On examination this writing revealed affinities with Sinaitic scripts discovered near Mt. Sinai and with Phoenician scripts found in Syria. Orientalists were excited at this unexpected bridging of an ancient linguistic...
...Greek colony, F. A. Schaeffer and Georges Chenet, French archeologists, found the unwieldy schoolbooks of a forgotten university. The books were clay tablets 4,000 years old covered with language lessons in four tongues: Assyro-Chaldean cuneiforms, the language of old time diplomats; Sumerian, the language of scientists; Phoenician, the language of the maritime merchants; and an unknown tongue. Other tablets had Egyptian and Hittite inscriptions. Where the schoolbooks were found, according to the inscriptions which scientists could read, existed a University City called Zapuna, a midpoint joining Mycenaean, Egyptian & Babylonian cultures. There ancient scholars exchanged languages, ideas...