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Word: khingan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...sombre strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shadow Over Asia | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

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