Word: sana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three armies of Wahabi Arabs, sent forth by Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, advanced last week through the mountain passes of Yemen Arabia, converging on Sana, the walled white mountain capital of Yemen One moved eastward, from the Red Sea port of Hodeida that Ibn Saud's men captured last fortnight. One moved westward from the great central desert toward Sana. The third drove down from the border bandit land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains...
...Saudite troops equipped with modern rifles and armored cars last week swooped down from the north upon Hodeida under the command of not Ibn Saud himself but his eldest son, the Emir Saud. Death of foxy Yahya the Imam seemed exaggerated. From Sana, his walled capital 7,000 ft. up in the mountains, he cabled Cairo...
...Saud's second son and Foreign Minister, assured the world that sacking was over and the city quite safe for foreigners. His potent father, he said, had already picked him as the next King of Yemen. Then the Saudite horsemen swept inland toward the thick, sloping walls of Sana...
...Mens sana in corpore sana;" cleanliness is next to godliness, and the shower room is next to Ward 3. And what a shower! We believe (and who will disagree?) it is impossible to overstress the importance of perfection in shower fixtures. This shower is just like a woman, one moment hot, the next cold. Possessed of woman's prerogative, it varies in temperature and force. Sometimes it merely ceases to function. Should some one take a glass of water some, where in the building, the shower reflects the fact instanter. Above the cubicle's door one well might read, "Abandon...
...crowds away. "Let Primo alone!" he shrilled. But the crowds hung on, grateful for an occasional glimpse of the monstrous, slow-witted champion as he trotted out with his trainers for roadwork, or shambled into a backyard garage through a door topped by Juvenal's maxim. MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO. The garage was his training quarters, fitted as a gymnasium with an 18-ft. ring. There he skipped rope, shadowboxed, sparred with his U. S. plug-uglies...