Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Museum officials say the destruction of the Golden Hall murals is as much of a loss to Oriental art as the art treasures of the Sistine Chapel would be to Western art. The photographs on exhibition at Fogg are the only full-scale pictures of the series that exist in the Western world...
Later, as a student in the universities of Germany and Switzerland, young Weizmann met the leaders of Russian Zionism: Achad Ha-am ("One of the People"), the Gandhi of the Jewish renaissance, and Menachem Mendel Ussishkin, its practical leader. He also met Western Jews: assimilationists who wanted no part of Zionism ; dedicated Jews, like Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist Congress; elegant English Jews, like Sir Francis Montefiore, who wore white gloves to Congress meetings because he had to shake so many hands...
After his first Broadway show, See America First, flopped in 1916, he decided to see Europe again. He joined a war relief agency, then the French Foreign Legion, and was in a French artillery outfit on the western front...
Apparently the Fergana Valley is shot through & through with uranium deposits of various kinds. In 1923, V. I. Popov reported one at Uigar-sai that he said compared favorably to "many carnotite sites in the U.S.A." In 1928, intense radioactivity was reported at the western end of the valley...
...Paleface. Bob Hope and Jane Russell go prospecting successfully for laughs on an old western plot (TIME...