Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...praiseworthy is the government of France, which performed lip service to the League of Nations narcotics limitation conventions of 1925 and 1931 and passed laws prohibiting cultivation, manufacture or transportation of hashish (Indian hemp) in French Syria. But nothing was said about possession. Syrians can and frequently do turn their mud-walled houses into warehouses for smuggled dope...
...group of undergraduates and taught them a set of rules which he had improvised. In its essentials, basketball remains as Dr. Naismith manufactured it. It was played first with seven men on a side, later nine, now five. It is played in Germany, France, Turkey, India. China, Syria. In South Africa men consider basketball effeminate but women play it with enthusiasm...
Moslem priests, scandalized, scratched their canny heads. Syria, they recalled, was suffering from droughts. That fact gave them an idea...
Solemnly the priests waited upon Sheik Taj-ed-Din. "Excellency, the Yo-Yo is the reason for the drought!" they cried. "The up-and-down movement of these infidel tops counteracts the prayers of the pious for rain. Allah is angry! Rain will never fall again in Syria while the wicked play with...
Taking no chances, Syria's Sheik Premier issued a drastic decree banning Yo-Yoing throughout the young Republic, threatened heavy penalties. According to despatches from Damascus, "it rained the very next...