Word: medina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequent aggression of Bolivia against Paraguay was sonorously alibied, last week, by Bolivian delegate Diez de Medina, addressing the Conference in Washington...
This childish and preposterous theory was weightily expounded by Señor Medina thus...
According to the Government, this brings the revolt to an end, only Generals Oscar Aguila and Antonio Medina being at large, both without any following...
Program. The Boedi-Oetomo and Sarakat-Islam openly preach revo- lution and envision a Holy War. They stimulate pilgrimages by their followers to the holy and distant cities of Mecca and Medina; and they look for support wherever it can be found. Thus funds from the Third International at Moscow are welcome; but Indian and especia'ly expatriated Chinese merchants also contribute largely to the insurgent funds. For some years there have been more or less serious revolts in the Dutch Indies almost every six months, but they have been firmly put down and the insurgent movement is still...
...Often as not He left Mohammed in the lurch, at first. The indignant Koreish drove the Moslems out of Mecca into the hills one winter. But soon Allah was well-behaved and sharp-eared again. He revealed a splendid opening for an up-and-coming prophet at ancient, paradisaic Medina up the Red Sea coast. There, Jews were noxious, Arabs uneasy. After cautious reconnoitering, Mohammed sent his band thither on the so-called Great Hegira. No harm ensuing, he followed later in holy triumph on his long-lived she-camel, Al-Kaswa, whom he permitted to choose the site...