Word: syria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...platform at Aleppo. Ruthlessly the gendarmes tore the cases apart and, like hens who had just done their duty on the nest, gave a chorus of self-satisfied ejaculations as they discovered not fruit, but cartridges and arms. The crates were consigned to rebellious Moslem Kurd tribesmen in northeastern Syria who have been revolting for weeks against French rule, who only day before had swooped down from the back country to pillage Christian homes and shops in Amouda near the Turkish frontier...
...Syria. Pilot Gromov and companions had covered a geographical distance o. 6,262 miles, not counting detours and backtracks. They were in the air for 62 hr. 17 min. A representative of the National Aeronautic Association shipped their sealed, clock-controlled barograph to Washington. A California fruit inspector fearful of Russian insect pests climbed into the plane, peeked and poked, confiscated a bag of fruit...
...Longest: the 5,657 miles from New York to Syria flown by Frenchmen Paul Codos & Maurice Rossi...
...Senator Varro, once of Rome, had thought it best to exile himself in Syria after the death of his friend and protector, the Emperor Nero. Varro had grown to like and understand the East; thanks to his money and his sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...
...Otto Krayer, Professor of Pharmacology at the American University of Beirut, Syria, outstanding German medical specialist, has been appointed Associate Professor of Pharmacology at the Harvard Medical School for five years beginning next September. Author of many important scientific papers, and editor of the journal "Ergbenisso dor Physiologic...