Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, Fine Arts 17, dealing with problems in Chinese and Japanese Art will be given primarily for graduate students during the first half year by Langdon Warner '03, Fellow of the Fogg Art Museum for Research in Asia. Mr. Warner has recently returned from a collecting trip in Asia where he made a number of significant finds...
...TRAIL OF ANCIENT MAN -Roy Chapman Andrews-Putnam ($6). "Asia is the mother of the continents...
...called 20th century, Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History put two enormous twos together and obtained a daring hypothetical four: similar fossils having been found in Europe and in western North America, there must have been a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska; central Asia had been the original point of dispersal of the animal kingdom, including mankind. Dr. Osborn mentioned the matter to his ablest zoologist and that young man, Roy Chapman Andrews, industriously raised half a million dollars to take a band of assorted scientists into the Gobi for five years of intensive...
...between London and Paris -1,539 passengers in 183 machines, with 35 tons of freight and baggage. Despatches from Germany announced extension of the European air mail network to reach Teheran, capital of Persia; a through route from Europe to Mesopotamia; a projected passenger service from Berlin clear across Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers and crew-will be carried inside enormous wings in machines of the future. Passengers will be able to move freely...
...seduction, by Charles Fox, was a helpless lady's surrender to the slyest of flattery; he wooed her "parts," her "unsuspected powers." ... So writes generous E. Barrington-L. Adams Beck, the double-barreled lady who has lately risen to fame as an expositor of Oriental mysticism (Splendour of Asia, The Ninth Vibration, etc.) and simultaneously as biographer of the Duchess of Fenton (The Chaste Diana), Lady Hamilton (The Divine Lady) and Poet Byron (Glorious Apollo). Her periods billow out like fussy, over-embroidered crinolines when she is in her role of sentimental raconteuse, but the historical reconstructions are superb...