Word: asia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...francs. The Louvre got Durameau's Partie de Cartes aux Bougies for 36,000 francs and Saint Aubin's Rêve for 76,000 francs. Hubert Robert's Vouté reached 8,000 francs. By auction, Durighiello's Venus Accroupie, excavated in Asia Minor, brought 305,500 francs; his Apollon Citharède,113,000 francs...
...CHALLENGE OF ASIA-Stanley Rice-Scribner ($2.25). Once more the bugaboo of the Yellow Peril appears. The adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity-a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow...
...discussed and the record of the past year reviewed. With the three-transmitting sets which are now in active operation on top of the Stadium, the Club next year expects to even surpass the recent it made this year, which included communication with every continent of the world, excepting Asia...
Escaping it on the battlefields of Europe, Asia and Africa, General Charles Marie Emmanuel Mangin, 58, met Death in Paris. He died from appendicitis. Mme. Mangin and eight children survive...
...would have been simple enough to fling the signals on, to Europe, to Asia, even on around the globe to Hawaii whence they had started. Instead, Station RCA brought them down into a last telegraph line, shot them in to Manhattan...