Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, Asia and Africa have been found fossil men hundreds of thousands of years old-perhaps even a million years old. But not in North America. It seems likely that the first North Americans were Asiatics who crossed a land bridge which once existed between Siberia and Alaska. Fifteen years ago it was generally believed that this migration occurred very late in the Stone Age, only 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, perhaps even later. Claims of greater antiquity were inexorably demolished, and largely through the efforts of one man-famed, Bohemian-born Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution...
Harvard's ace anthropologist, Earnest Albert Hooton, summed it up this way: "Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has stood like Horatius at the land bridge between Asia and North America, mowing down with deadly precision all would-be geologically ancient invaders of the New World...
Captain Billy moved his office to Manhattan, then to Greenwich, Conn., built a $250,000 hunting lodge in Minnesota, traveled, shot big game in Africa, hunted in Canada, Asia, Alaska, captained an Olympic shooting team, flew his own plane, was thrice married, twice divorced, sired four sons and a daughter. Still in the money but no longer an active publisher, he was vacationing in Hollywood last week when he suffered a heart attack, and Death, as it must to every man, came to Captain Billy...
Takao Saito, a flamboyant orator, a clever politician and a Yale man, asked three unprecedented questions in the lower House of the Diet: 1) How long will the China Incident last? 2) Exactly what does the phrase "New Order in East Asia" mean? 3) What return had the Japanese people had for all their heavy sacrifices...
...Saito had "belittled Japan's holy war and defiled the souls of hundreds of thousands of dead" (official Japanese figures on Japanese dead: 70,000). War Minister General Shunroku Hata appeared before the lower House to answer the Saito attack with a charming speech about "peace in East Asia," "universal brotherhood," "good neighborliness" and a still undefined "New Order...