Word: syria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent Phillips Brooks House clothing drive are now on their way to several distant parts of the world, it was learned yesterday from H. K. Thayer '25, who was in charge of the 1923 drive. One case of articles has just been sent to Beirut College, in Beirut, Syria, where the Phillips Brooks House Association maintains several missionaries. Destitute German students in Marburg University, Marburg, Germany, will receive another consignment. A third shipment has been sent to Utica, Mississippi for the students in the state normal and industrial institute, which has recently been destroyed by fire...
Hardly a nation in the world is not represented by at least one student. In addition to nearly all the countries of Europe and America, the list includes British South Africa, the Barbadoes, Trinidad, New Zealand, India, Ceylon, Syria, Siam, Czecho-Slovakia and Asia Minor...
...factory for the manufacture of laws dictated by the French." The precise cause of the movement seems to be that the French Government neglected to define the powers that the Assembly should exercise. The press stated that the news had evaded the French censorship in Syria...
...Syria (bounded on the north by Turkey, on the south by Palestine and Transjordania, on the east by Iraq and on the west by the Mediterranean Sea) is held by France under mandate from the League of Nations (confirmed July 23, 1922) and is composed of five states. The states of Damascus in the south, of Aleppo in the north, of Alaouite in the east form the Syrian Federation; the two remaining states of Jebel Druze in the south and Great Lebanon on the west coast are autonomous...
When Henri Philippot was in service in Syria last year, his wife wrote to him from Paris and said that she had been unfaithful. He forgave her. Upon his return to France she refused to live with him and, since he was a good Catholic, divorce was denied him. Philippot then joined the detective service, was issued a revolver, killed his wife. At his trial he said: " She was my wife and it was my right." The jury agreed with...