Word: camels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troubles, his own skirmishes with the "Reds"--he was twice wounded--his own visits to "yurtas", where the blood of the last murdered victim had not yet sunk into the ground, his own wanderings by horse, cart, camel, and on foot, Dr. Ossendowski has not forgotten to look about him and learn. The last section of the book, in which he tells of the fabled "King of the World", and sets forth Buddhistic prophecies and miracles, is undoubtedly a more than unique thing. Strangest of all--the passage that causes the Christian reader to gasp as he suddenly and without...
...Five French caterpillar tractors have arrived in Timbuctoo after a two thousand mile trip across the African desert, accomplishing in twenty-one days what takes a camel caravan three months...
Tugurt-to-Timbuctoo may never become as famous as Berlin-to-Bagdad, or even Cape-to-Cairo, but it has justified itself in the eyes of the press, if only because it has provided the headline: "Caterpillars Conquer Camel Caravan...
...highest bidder as long as there is space left. Others have already ordered our town cars to be boxed up and shipped from Chicago, Philadelphia or New York before the freight trains stop running. . . . But we'll be there, one and all--whether by ox-cart or dirigible, by camel or the Boston Elevated. And when the sun rises in New Jersey on November fifth, it will be shaded by the dust of a caravan from out of the east, more brilliant than any Marco Polo ever encountered on his hike to Cathay...
...other stories among those that deserve the greatest commendation are C. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Camel's Back", Alice Duer Miller's "Slow Poison", L. H. Robbins "Professor Todd's used Car", and "Alma Mater" by O. F. Lewis. The last, as might be supposed from the title, is a college story, a narrative abreast of the progress in American university matters...