Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, famed air traveler, who has comfortably covered 20,000 miles (Europe, Asia, East Indies) in his own plane, returned to the U. S. on the Carinthia in ample time to register so that he may vote for Nominee Smith...
...renowned beauty of the imperial princesses of his line they owe the foreign alliances which for centuries secured their independence. But to the topography of their country they owe most. This plateau, sloping to the southeastern angle of the Black Sea, is cut off from the rest of Asia Minor by a barrier of rugged mountains, blessing it with political and climatic isolation. Rarely above 88° in summer or below 10° in winter, the weather, humid, temperate, contrasts with that of not distant inland regions where great extremes of heat and cold are common...
...paintings were realistic and ordinary, yet showed that flashy brilliance that many Russians have when they are young and conceited. He spent a year in Paris and turned impressionist. Fantastic flat decorations are his forte and peculiarity. In this manner he has tried to picture Russia's and Asia's past. His pieces number about 3,000. Several hundred are in the Roerich Museum in Manhattan. They are wierd, mystical, fascinating...
Small tigers (not blind) abound in the dry uplands of the Belgian Congo, Africa. But perhaps Representative Murphy has in mind the largest species of tiger, the felis tigris, which is indigenous to Asia. Subscriber Murphy would be meticulously correct if he should state that the felis tigris is to be found in Africa only behind zoo bars...
Recently a World Topics Corporation has been formed to take over the magazine and this week it is being issued as a monthly, similar in format to Asia. The new editor: John Bakeless, onetime Managing Editor of the Forum and weekly contributor to TIME...