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Word: himalayan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Brigadier-General Hon. Charles Granville Bruce, 73, British World War veteran, who at 56 vainly dedicated his life to scaling Mount Everest; in London. Though General Bruce's two expeditions (1922 and 1924) failed to reach the top of the 29,141-ft. Himalayan mountain, none ever climbed so high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 24, 1939 | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...other great zone of quake frequency is known as the Mediterranean-Caucasian-Himalayan circle. Along this and the Pacific zone scientists estimate 91 out of 100 quakes occur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Worst Shake | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...entertainment nevertheless, Alexander Korda's new movie, "Drums," at Keith Memorial this week, shows how far excellent color and exciting surroundings will go to make up a satisfactory melodrama. There is nothing but action and suspense throughout, and Sabu the Hindu boy fits excellently into the life of a Himalayan tribe, yet the plot as a whole runs in too much of a groove to make the picture topnotch. Raymond Massey sneers well as the fanatic tribesman, and Desmond Tester is a very good cockney drummer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

Under the leadership of Dr. Hallam L. Movius '02 and Dr. Hellmut de Terra the expedition has discovered extinct fossils of the Himalayan ice age--a buffalo, a hippopotamus, and elephants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD EXPEDITION FINDS PREHISTORIC FOSSIL LINKS | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...York City's Bronx Zoo, a rare Himalayan bear ate a peach. The pit stuck in his small intestine, killed him. A hippopotamus gulped a tube of toothpaste, grew violently ill. In the stomach of a cassowary dead of indigestion were found a golf ball, a metal doll, twelve pop bottle tops, a vanity case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Don't Feed the Animals | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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