Word: caspian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living artist. For the last five years his home has been an old lighthouse on The Wash, a place of inlets and tidal marshes on the Lincolnshire coast; where he makes pets of the wild geese. Ornithologist as well as artist, Scott last year spent four months around the Caspian Sea in a vain search for a rare red-breasted goose...
...delegates of 54 nationalities to the Council of Nationalities. Ukraine, Uzbek on the Afghanistan border, Turkmen on the Caspian, Armenian, Georgian, six other "constituent republics" sent 25 each. Tatars from the Volga, Karelians from the swampy North, Buriat-Mongolians from the shores of Lake Baikal, Moldavians from the southwestern borders of the Ukraine, 18 other "autonomous republics" sent eleven each, while 45 came from nine regions and twelve from national districts like Komi, Chukotsk in the Arctic...
While portraying a composite picture of life and conditions in the West of today, White took an optimistic viewpoint, but in closing, he sounded an ominous note regarding the "symptoms of injustice and unrest facing the Christian world today from the Caspian to Honolulu...
...holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah, new German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad and on the semitropical shores of the Caspian Sea. A train will now be able to haul oil from the southwest to the granaries of the northeast, can return to the Persian Gulf loaded with Mazanderan cotton and Caspian Sea caviar. How much the freight charges will be is another matter...
...with no foreign lines. Foreign engineers, not interested in strategy, chuckled that the railway goes from "nowhere to nowhere." This spring Scandinavian engineers were doubling shifts to finish before autumn a 200-mile gap so that His Imperial Majesty can soon ride by rail from his estates on the Caspian to his lands on the Persian Gulf...