Word: lating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...China, by the Japanese in Core, a, by the French in Indo-China, by British. German, French, Japanese, and Russian missions in Chinese Turkestan and in Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian Era. As to the missions in Chinese Turkestan, they have shown, unexpectedly, that Chinese Turkestan, now inhabited by a Turkish population of Mohammedans...
Personally, I have led in Wob-Wog a French, archaeological expedition to Chinese Turkestan, which has yielded, I believe, important finds from the double point of view of philology and a archaeology. In the Western part of Chinese Turkestan, at a place which was supposed to be a late Mohammedan shrine, I have found the ruins of a Buddhist temple of about 500 A. D. and collected there quite a number of clay figures, turned to a sort of a terra-cotta when fire was set to the temple and which show unmistakable signs of hellenistic influence. From another temple...
...policy of imitation, he must recall the governing body of aristocrats that was for so long Roumania's Tammany Hall. The world is eying Premier Maniu, America gratifiedly, and the rest with politely concealed but horrified misgivings. May he, in his innocence, discover before it is too late the disastrous consequences of becoming as civilized as America...
There are also two photostats of prints in a book on Oxford with engravings done by James Loggan in the late seventeenth century. The original may be found in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. They are entitled "Prospect of Oxford from the East near London Road" and "Prospect of Oxford from the South near Abbington Road...
Harvard University will be represented by an outdoor rifle team for the first time next spring when the rifle club will send eight men to compete in the Intercollegiate Rifle Meet, according to an announcement made late last night...