Word: phoenician
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Having recently received a large number of exhibits from the Lebanon Republic Pavilion at the New York World's fair, the Semitic Museum will soon display the principal archaeological finds, paintings, and motel work illustrative of Phoenician civilization...
...Phoenician and Punte Remains in Sardinia," will be the subject of an illustrated lecture on archeology, to be given this afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Large Lecture Room of the Semite Museum by Dr. Doro Levi of Princeton...
...clock in the large lecture room of the Semitic Museum, will be: February 14, "The Secret of the Pyramids," by Professor Georg Steindorff, formerly of the University of Lolpzig; March 13, "Recent Excavations in Syria," by Harald Ingholt, of the University of Aarhus, Denmark; and March 21, "Phoenician and Punic Remains in Sardinia," by Professor Doro Levi, formerly of the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, at present Recorder for the Princeton Excavations at Antioch...
...motto) was also transferred to the new quarters. Younger instructors, therefore, still found the Square cafeterias more reasonable and the undergraduate Houses more congenial. Few of them sought membership; and the large clubhouse was usually dark and empty except for two or three professors emeriti who each evening debated Phoenician punctuation in the bay-windowed common room...
...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...