Word: egyptian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blacksmith's shop to familiarize himself with metals, but his favorite materials are wood and stone which he frequently picks up on motor trips to Connecticut. Ferber has been working for only six years but has already been through four great influences in that period: African, Egyptian, Mexican and Lachaise. Best whittling: The Wrestlers, in mahogany, and Worker, in lignum-vitae. Best stone work: Cat, from a cobblestone...
...collection of economic plants and plants products was also increased by important additions, among 450 specimens of Chinese food, drug, fibre and timber plants; a number of Egyptian plants; a number of Mexican rosaries composed of ornamental seeds; a series of plant materials from Oklshoma associated with the peyote ceremony of the Kiowa Indians; specimens of resin-yielding plants and resinous products from the Federated Malay States; and specimens from Burma...
...offspring of the Greek gods Hermes and Aphrodite was bi-sexual Hermaphrodites. The Egyptian moon deity, too, was hermaphroditic, and one Biblical commentator declares: "When the Holy One . . . created the first man, he created him a hermaphrodite." In spite of the antiquity of man's interest in the subject, until last week there was still a place for an exhaustive clinical study of hermaphroditism and what to do about it surgically, which has now been filled by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young's Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases (Williams & Wilkins...
...Polish village, is a Polish Tartar, who arrived in the U. S. 29 years ago. Most of his habitual worshippers are also Tartars, descendants of Tamerlane's hordes who entered Russia 600 years ago. But at the joyous feast which ends Ramadan Dec. 5, 300 Moslems - Arab, Syrian, Egyptian, Turkish, East Indian - are expected to gather in the mosque from all parts...
Producer Samuel Goldwyn's wild-eyed press-agentry dispatched a telegram in his name to Mr. Mohamed Amine Youssef, Egyptian Minister in Washington inquiring rates and conditions for advertising on the Pyramids to be used "in a dignified manner to announce the coming world release of The Adventures Of Marco Polo...