Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More recently Hossain has been lecturing to audiences in Europe and America on political, economic, and cultural relations between the Orient and the Occident. Years of editorial experience in Asia and Europe make his knowledge of the problems involved first-hand and authentic. As editor of the "New Orient," America's latest magazine of Eastern affairs, he is bringing before western minds the Oriental's point of view in art, religion, and letters...
Another cinema masterpiece out of the Russian studios has its first showing in Boston this week at the Fine Arts Theatre. The film, "Storm over Asia," directed by Vsevold Pudovkin, whose great production, "The End of St. Petersburg" will be remembered, is a tale of the racial revolution in 1918 which took place against the Occupation Forces on the Mongolian steppes...
Harvard's Bells, Asia's Crane...
Charles R. in his 72 years has made 23 trips to Russia. He has said and truly, "I have seen more of Asia than any other man." Well may Harvard rejoice to receive from this unique non-alumnus (his sons are Harvard men, not he), supreme bells. First wind of the gift came not long ago when Mr. Crane and President Lowell were seen prowling about Lowell House. Together the two oldsters, fairly chuckling, measured the tower-not originally conceived as a bell tower. There was barely room for those bells...
...aged 20, and having caught malaria while studying at Stevens Institute in Hoboken, Charles R. was sent to Asia instead of to college. He "traveled seriously," spent three months following on foot a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks In Canton. He resolved "to devote my life to the study of Asia...