Word: terras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Germany. Professor Max The Miracle Reinhardt pooled his resources with Showman Curtis Melnitz, onetime Berlin manager for United Artists Theatre Circuit of America, and bought controlling interest last week in Terra Film, a leading German cinema firm which he will use to produce German talkie operettas, later talkie operas...
...Bartlett, of which Ambassador Dwight Whitney Mor row was once a member. He had many large corporations among his clients, de fended the directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in 1915 when they were charged with trying to monopolize New England commerce, was attorney for the "Terra Cotta Trust" in the Untermyer-Lockwood building inquiry...
...dead king. The explorers found oldest known examples of civilized pottery and sculpture, about 6000 B.C. Kish is in Mesopotamia, near Ur of the Chaldees. Researches have shown that burial customs of the two peoples were similar. From the Elamites descended the Sumerians, some of whose painted terra-cotta statuary has been recovered. Between 4000 and 3000 B.C. the Sumerians, a higher type of civilization, gave up burial alive. The diggers also discovered traces of Nebuchadnezzar's restoration work on the temple of Harsgakalemma, and a baby's rattle in the form of a hollow clay hedgehog with...