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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Companion volumes by the same authors list Tibetan syllables according to phonetic values (English alphabetical order), Tibetan verbs, commonplace chater for travelers. But Gould & Richardson lope that their students, will not be unmoved by Tibetan's poetic quality, claim hat the language challenges Chinese in its imagery. The name, for example, of one of he most glorious Himalayan pinnacles, Canchenjanga, third highest in the world, means "The Five Storehouses of the Great Snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Found Horizon | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...camel company, one pony company, one mechanized company with armored cars, manned by dark-skinned Somali Arabs and officered by Britons. Total with reserves: about 560 men. Beside these stood another 560 native mounted police with rifles, machine guns, British officers. Their leader was Lieut. Colonel Arthur Reginald Chater, oldtime desert fighter. Governor and Commander in Chief of the protectorate is Vincent Goncalves Glenday, 49, an Oxonian sportsman careerist in Britain's colonial service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: War Without Water | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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