Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London Daily Express featured during the week alleged revelations to the effect that Premier Mussolini has definite plans under way to seize from Turkey a portion of Asia Minor with the connivance if not the actual armed assistance of Greece...
...TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN -Roy Chapman Andrews-Putnam ($6). "Asia is the mother of the continents...
...beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah of Persia, who affected still...
...Ottawa, Anthropologist Diamond Jenness of the Victoria Memorial Museum returned from Point Prince of Wales, Alaska (nearest to^ Asia), with Eskimo relics obtained after four months' excavating. Four distinct periods >were traceable, the next-to-latest antedating the fights between Eskimos and Norsemen in 982 A. D, in eastern North America...
...islands north to Point Barrow, then worked southward, following the Yukon to its mouth, in search of relics left by problematical Asiatic migrations to America. The anthropological world waited to hear if he could establish kinship between North American red Indians and identical human types visible today in northeastern Asia...