Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mejid. Subsequently (1924) it abolished the Califate and banished from Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed by Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd. 2) None of these three disgruntled Califs possesses all three of the traditional qualifications: descent from Mohammed; the status of an independent sovereign; possession of the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina. 3) None...
...that time also a man came forward, if one may call a man, one whom his Disciples called the Son of God. His being and his figure were quite human, a man of middle size with a stooping back and a long face, a prominent nose and with brows which grew together so that those who saw him would get frightened, with very little hair and having in the middle of his forehead a sign, according to the habit of the Nazarenes. His looks were quite simple, only his pose was more than human because he performed wonders through some...
...moderator is the son of onetime Negro slaves; is 58; a graduate of Fisk University and of Yale (Bachelor of Divinity) ; holds "progressive" rather than modernist religious views...
Gesticulating horsemen in the lobby of the Sellbach Hotel in Louisville had excitedly repeated the name of Bubbling Over for weeks, telling how this chestnut son of North Star III had smashed every fractional record up to a mile and an eighth when he won the Blue Grass stakes at Lexington by eight lengths. Eight lengths! That was the way Man-o'-War used...
German Steel. Last week the largest trust in Germany was formed (TIME, April 12)- the United Steel Works, combination of the Thyssen, the Phoenix, the Rheinstal and the Deutsch Luxembourg. Dillon, Read & Co. financed the merger with $30,000,000 to $50,000,000. Fritz Thyssen, son of August who was the great German coal and iron magnate, is chairman of the new company, which will have an annual capacity output of 3,700,000 tons of steel, 2,500,000 tons of pig iron, 8,000,000 tons of coke and 30,000,000 of coal...