Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Antonius went on to say that French and British interests in their Mandates in Syria lay in the air line routes to the East, naval bases in the eastern Mediterranean, pipe lines for oil and similar economic and military factors...
Last week sketchy reports reached Aleppo in Syria that Mr. Bache had penetrated the Twelfth Level, representing a town of minor importance, was starting to excavate the Thirteenth Level, a town which he called "P Prlent" and which he believed was built 6,000 years before Christ. It was thus older than Ur by 2,000 years...
...Arabs under Feisal had helped the Allies on the promise of an independent Arab kingdom. Instead, the Allies gave Feisal Syria under a French mandate. When Feisal took his kingship seriously, the French kicked him out. Chastened, he was given the British mandate of Irak. Complained he: "European statesmen are like impressionist paintings. The effect at a distance is excellent...
John Dorman '36, of Beirut, Syria, was last night elected to captain the 1935 soccer team, while Whitney G. Case '36, of Buffalo, N. Y., will become manager and William Lawrence '37, of Providence, R. I., assistant manager for next year...
...finally ensconced on top of a 60-ft. column on which he lived for 36 years without once descending. The holy man hauled his food up with a rope, or it was carried up a ladder by his disciples, who founded monasteries nearby. Twentieth Century French diggers in Syria explored the great edifice of four basilicas built in St. Simeon's honor, in the courtyard of which the base of his column still stands. Their last bulletin to the French Academy of Inscriptions was that a fragment of the pillar itself had been unearthed...