Word: kum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some parts of the Great Kizil Kum Desert, cotton was cultivated 10,000 years before Christ, but these plantations have long since been obliterated by the shifting sands. With expert American help the Soviet government intends to make the rivers in Turkestan do for this enormous barren area what the rivers of California and other States have done for American waste land...
...Easterwood of Dallas, Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic. . . . Kum Ming, who was a poet and a wise ruler, destroyed his airplane just before his death for the protection of mankind. . . . He had bombed and destroyed...
...street-cleaners felt that something momentous was about to happen. They saw a man in a derby swagger up to a man in a flopping, broad-brimmed, black hat and grip his hand magnificently; they heard two unimportant-looking old gentlemen discussing something terrifically important. "Why all this ho-kum?" they asked one another, laying down their shovels. Alert citizens would have told them that Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6 and that lawmakers often arrive early...
...health of War Lord Léon Trotzky, reported staying at Suk-kum-Kale in the Caucasus, was intrinsically and extrinsically complicated...
...patient,--Mustapha Kemal and his Nationalist movement,--flushed with success over the heirs of Alexander, has advanced upon the town of Chanak and Kum Kale, both on the Dardanelles, and even, within two days deliberately entered the prescribed neutral zone about the passageway from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. The doctors all this while,--the Allies,--have been on the borders of hysteria. Ultimatums have passed from Britain to Kemal, and, height, of insolence, Kema! has demanded Eastern Thrace. Moreover, the Nationalist leader, accepting the Allied terms, has added the proviso that be shall continue military operations during...