Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free rein to fool around in the western hemisphere. A Roosevelt Doctrine might succeed the defunct Monroe Doctrine if, on the basis of the Good Neighbor Policy, a great neutral bloc could be created in the Americas, assuring mutual American economic, political and military self-sufficiency if Europe and Asia should be engulfed in war. Such a creation might well be a springboard to boost the U. S. President to a place of direct influence in world politics, through the medium of belligerent boycott. Such a hope may well have inspired Franklin Roosevelt's eagerness to dash to Buenos...
...Macedonians! See there the general who would go from Europe to Asia! He cannot got from one table to another...
Just now leaking past Asia's censorship is the fact that Generalissimo Chiang has been building an elaborate line of cement pillboxes for machine guns and digging scores of miles of trenches so disposed as to make possible resistance to a Japanese attack launched from North China upon Central China in which are Shanghai and the capital, Nanking. South China, rebellious against Chiang only a few weeks ago, has now again acknowledged the Dictator's rule, but the great feature of Chiang's successful struggles during the past five years has been his way with Chinese Communists...
...Ales Hrdlicka, famed Bohemian-born anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, in the summer usually goes to the Aleutian Islands off Alaska with a gang of amateur helpers to study traces of prehistoric migration from Asia. Last summer he brought back great quantities of weapons, household utensils, stone lamps, plates, amulets, skeletons. Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that among this material had been found the largest skull ever recorded on the Western Hemisphere. The cranial capacity was 2,005 cubic centimetres. Average for modern man is 1,450 cc. World record is still held by the great Russian Novelist, Ivan...
...extraordinary and unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book had its source in the author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every corner, with the same old feuds and underground activities that a stranger might be aware of, get involved in, but could not understand...