Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper work for the New York Evening Sun. He was outlook correspondent in the armies of Villa and Carranza in 1914 and two years later in the punitive expedition led by Pershing. Before the World War he undertook political and economic investigations in Yucatan, Mexico, Russia, Asia and the Far East. During the war he was outlook correspondent in the Argonne and Meuse campaigns and later in the antisubmarine operations of the United States and Great Britain. Immediately after the Armistice he visited Germany, Austria, Turkey and the Balkans to report political and economic conditions. As a lecturer he obtained...
...Asia. Speak of digging in Asia and you think of Roy Chapman Andrews. After another year on the uncivilized side of the Gobi Desert, he is on his way back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe...
Federal Council. The election of Bishop Murray was the more acclaimed because he has never sought reflected splendor. Neither has Bishop Brent, although for many years he has been conspicuously in the forefront of public and ecclesiastical affairs in the U. S., in Asia, in Europe. If he felt disappointment at failure to receive the honor which many thought should be his, it was trifling compared with the disappointment, which he probably expected and which he emphatically received on the following...
...this is useless, Mr. Chairman." He said he was 45 years old, had been in the army 27 years, had been flying 17 years. Then he began to read in a high clear voice. He contended that the U. S. was vulnerable to aerial attack from Europe and Asia, that what was needed was a Department of National Defense in which the Air* ranked equally with the Army and Navy. "Let the ground man run the ground, let the water man run the water...
...North and South American continents rooted immovably into the curved crust of the earth, or are they slipping slowly away from Europe and toward Asia? Probably there is no slipping. The earth's crust is exceedingly solid, exceedingly strong...