Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Capper and Goldfishman Noda consult the New York Aquarium, only institution in the U. S. which regularly procures fish for medical purposes. The Aquarium would be obliged to import bitterlings from Europe or Asia, storing them free of charge until the purchaser was ready to accept delivery. New York's Saw Mill River was stocked with bitterlings ten years ago, but two years later they had disappeared...
...Duce then indicated that his policy does not run counter to the interests of France. "Italy has no future in the west and north!" he cried. "Her future lies to the east and south, in Asia and Africa. The vast resources of Asia must be valorized, and Africa must be brought within the orbit of civilization. . . . We demand that the nations which have already arrived in Africa do not block at every step Italian expansion...
...rapidly advancing energetic young priests (see above), the Pope last week appointed not only the youngest bishop in the U. S. but also the first in the world born in the 20th Century. He was Very Rev. Monsignor Raymond Augustine Kearney, 32. His posts: titular bishop of Lisinia (Asia Minor), auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Brooklyn, N. Y. which includes all Long Island, is smaller (1,086,722 Catholics) only than the archdioceses of New York and Chicago. Jersey City-born, sandy-haired Bishop Kearney was ordained in 1927 in the Lateran Basilica in Rome, where he took...
...addition to his work here, where he was intimately connected with the Peabody Museum as Curator of Ethnology, Mr. Dixon made several expeditions to Mongolia and Siberia. He made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the physiography and geological formation of Northern Asia and established reciprocal relations between Siberian Museums and similar institutions in the United States in 1901, which have resulted in much valuable information concerning Mongolia...
...description of a trip which he made through Asia last year formed the hitching post to which Professor Hopper connected his facts. From these facts, in turn, he drew conclusions, as in the above case of Japanese policy in China...