Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eastern Lands. The New Year peace of Europe extended, last week, very generally across Asia except in China. Even there, however, the incessant civil wars have smouldered down to a truce of exhaustion. The great hinterlands of Mongolia and Tibet continue slumbrous under the rule of local chieftains and priestly cults whose sovereignty is ill defined. Even the pugnacious Shah of Persia, Reza Khan Pahlevi, is at peace. So calm is neighboring Afghanistan that the Amir, Amanullah Khan, has left his realm to shortly begin a pleasure tour through Europe. Finally, crossing over from Asia to Africa, the various tribesmen...
...favored ones are Mgr. Raymond Rouleau, Archbishop of Quebec (Dominican) ; Mgr. Pedro Sigura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo, Spain (Augustinian); Mgr. Alexis Henry Lepicier, Titular Bishop of Tarsus in Asia Minor (Servite); Mgr. Henry Charles Binet, Archbishop of Besancon, France...
...Mohammedan women do not kneel with men folk in the pit of the mosque. Even in new Christian churches in China, Japan and elsewhere in Asia, women until recently sat in a special section railed or curtained off for them...
Aerial route time-tables, posters, maps, photographs, and charts are pouring into the Business School library from America, Europe, and Asia, in preparation for the study of industrial aviation in Business Policy 12, under the supervision of Professor J. A. de Haas, William Ziegler Professor of Foreign Trade...
...publications of European air-transport corporations show an advanced development of commercial aviation in the Old World, as complete information is provided for the air passengers, including books of elaborate photographic views along the air routes, and comprehensive time tables with connections to all parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Posters displayed by aviation corporations in France, Germany, and Russia, and sent to the Business School show that a keen competition exists in the air transportation business of Europe...