Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author- Called Sweden's foremost explorer, "the modern Marco Polo," Dr. Sven Anders Hedin got his start 49 years ago as tutor with a family in Baku on the Caspian, has been prowling Central Asia almost continuously ever since. Expert hydrographer and cartographer, he carries only the simplest instruments on his expeditions, depends largely on the measured stride of his riding camel for computing distances. For Chicago's Century of Progress he directed the reproduction of Jehol's "Golden Pavilion." Short, bland, unmarried and 69, Explorer Hedin is now completing a railroad survey for China...
...elected Deputy because he bought his rural constituents so many free drinks and livestock. That scandal won him the distinction of being one of the few French Deputies ever unseated for bribery by his legislative peers. Later he was discreetly elected Senator. Lately he reached the U. S. from Asia on a tour around the world. Paris chuckled last week at news that "Momo," pulling a solemn face, had visited the U. S. Senate, steered by California's Hiram Johnson who guided his flaccid right hand into the rough-textured paw of Vice President John Garner. Paris...
...land and to the city where Rotary was born 29 years ago. the directors brought messages of Hope. Goodwill and a Bright Future from all over the world. Samples: "India faces the future with confidence." -Frederick Ernest James, Madras planter and Honorary General Commissioner of Rotary for Middle Asia. "Leaders of China are engaged in reconstruction."-Dr. Fong Foo Sec. retired Shanghai editor. ''The worst ... is over." - Herbert Schofield of Loughborough, England. "German unemployment has decreased 50% in 18 months."-Otto Fischer, Stuttgart banker. "Businessmen of Japan can hope for the economic recovery of their country...
...America of today faces a crisis. Other nations are arming, outfitting troops, building battleships and cancelling debts. Europe bristles with bayonets. Asia rules with cruisers, pineapples, and typewriters, every coolie packs a rod. Africa, whilom house of the laughter loving lion, is now a hornet's nest of poison darts, dum dum bullets, King Kong and Frank Buck. War is imminent. (Advertisement courtesy of the National Students League.) In a chaos of Hate and Strife we find ourselves, swept along by irresistible currents, pursued by a thousand enemies, unable to save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal...
...Book, By this point readers may begin to see why Author Mann, with all of Europe's complicated culture to embroider on, chose rather to go back to Asia to wake a slumbering legend. Originally attracted by the charm and the tantalizing brevity of this "natural narrative" of Jacob and his sons, Mann soon saw greater & greater depths in the story, an unsuspected universality in its theme. Readers will expect much more than a refurbished narrative of the tale of Joseph and they will not be disappointed. Author Mann has woven the threads of myth, history and fiction into...