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Word: mohammedanism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Zogu, a Mohammedan, took his coronation oath, he swore on both a Koran and a Bible. Observers saw in this an indication that he had not given up his reported desire to marry the Princess Giovanna of Italy. Signer Benito Mussolini is reported to desire the union. But King Vittorio Emanuele, Princess Giovanna's Roman Catholic father, objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Koran & Bible | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

While in Peking the Mohammedan General Pai Chung-hsi swaggered riotously with 2,000 Mohammedan stalwarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Prattling | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

Enough to set hairs a-standing on pious Mohammedan heads would be a proposal to cover the broad, flat floors of mosques with hateful, heathen pews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Awful Desecration | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...resourceful and successful Christian Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Missionary | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...effects of the absence of Radcliffe undergraduates from the announced case of "Hassan" is all too easily imaginable. Brattle Hall, owning no Ethiopian heaven but merely a prim balcony, had been pictured in the happy mind of the Harvard undergraduate as being itself for one exotic night a Mohammedan heaven, with all joys of the East offered for the vicarious happiness of the onlooker. The refreshing lotus was poised a moment at the mouth f the weary student, only to be snatched away even as his lips parted. For in the Cambridge Koran it is written; Basketball bloomers may come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUEZZIN | 4/6/1928 | See Source »

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