Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chapman Andrews Robert Abram Bartlett Frederick R. Burnham Richard E. Byrd George K. Cherrie James L. Clark Merian C. Cooper Lincoln Ellsworth Louis Agassiz Fuertes † George Bird Grinnell Charles A. Lindbergh Donald Baxter MacMillan Clifford H. Pope George Palmer Putnam Kermit Roosevelt Carl Rungius Stewart Edward White Orville Wright...
Paleontologically speaking, the Gobi and Altai regions are the provinces of Digger Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History. His discoveries have strengthened the theory that Asia was the point of dispersal of Mammalia. Civic ructions impeded his work last year (TIME, April 26, 1926), but last spring he was off again to try and add evidence of humans to his unparalleled find of dinosaurs and their eggs, baluchitheria...
...stairs creeked. Suddenly two burly peons confronted Mr. Chapman. One poked a gun at him. The other brandished a knife...
Thus threatened, Consul Chapman retreated step by step to his bedroom, the peons making no demands but simply prodding him on. There the man with the revolver suddenly fired at point blank range, sending a bullet into Mr. Chapman's left breast which fortunately passed cleanly through, not leaving a mortal wound. An instant later both peons dashed from the house...
...Consul Chapman, succored by friends, expressed the opinion that the man who had fired upon him was "simply an anarchist"; and declared himself unable to imagine any motive for the crime. Observers remembered that the U. S. Consulate at Puerto Mexico, was established only last March...