Word: burma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart of this new country is the mountain-girdled upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South. Below it lie the steaming jungles of Burma and French Indo-China, west of it lie the mountain fastnesses of Tibet, northwestward the desert plateaus of Turkestan (Sinkiang) and Mongolia...
...hinted Chiang last week, to Russia would naturally fall the trade position in China once held by Britain-unless Britain was soon able to match the U. S. S. R.'s friendly handouts. Britain could help China mightily with loans and shipments of munitions through British Burma, which would bulwark Chiang's southern campaign...
Most important are the 75 trays of prehistoric tools and implements, which the Burma expedition, sponsored by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, and the Peabody Museum, collected in the early part of the year. Advancing along the Irrawaddy River deep into the heart of southern Asia, the expedition opened up entirely new areas for the study of man's early development and has shed much light on the Pleistocene age, which scientists estimate ended several hundred thousand if not half a million years...
...While in Burma, the party discovered traces of a civilization totally different from Europe's first signs of man in the lower-Paleolithic age. Whereas the cave men of the primeval western world fashioned fairly useful implements, the early Burmese peoples had extremely crude contrivances with which to secure their food and protect themselves. When the geologists examined chipped rocks in the gravel of the Irrawaddy Valley, they had great difficulty determining whether natural or whether human forces had been at work...
Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...