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Word: mongol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four or five hundred years ago, Europe seemed about to be conquered by the Mongols . . . The chivalry and armed power of Europe was completely destroyed by the Asiatic hordes' mounted archers. It seemed that nothing could avert the doom of the famous continent from which modern civilization and culture have spread throughout the world. But at the critical moment, something happened-the great Khan died . . . The Mongol armies and their leaders trooped back on their ponies across the 7,000 miles which separated them from their capital, in order to choose a successor. They never returned-till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Mid-century Appraisal: THE STATESMAN | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Point of Departure. Last week the Dilowa Hutukhtu, urbane, erect and 66, was a Lattimore house guest in Baltimore's Ruxton suburb. He speaks Tibetan, Chinese, and everyday Mongol, reads the literary classical Mongol, which has changed little since the days of Genghis Khan. But since he understands no English, he will do no teaching yet. For the time being, he will be a research adviser on Mongolian culture and religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Refugee from the East | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Eaton took this line: "Americans are such good people that they are slow to recognize wickedness. . . ." Russia is a "ruthless and brutal nation," full of "atheism and immorality," its inhabitants, "ranging from Mongol beggars to stuffed commissars," mostly unhappy. In a flash of etymological insight he concluded: "Neither the Russians nor their tyrants understand the meaning of democracy. They are Slavs, which means captives or slaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: How to Help Moscow | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Ancient Yungnien, 200 miles south of Peiping in Hopeh Province, had weathered 13 centuries of Mongol, Tartar and Manchu invasion before it began crumbling under the rain of friendly bread. The Japanese, who had occupied the city, abandoned its 35,000 citizens in August 1945 to a ragtag puppet garrison, which was quickly adopted-but not reinforced -by the Nationalist Government. When Chinese Communist forces neared, the garrison breached the banks of the nearby Fu Yang River and turned Yungnien into a Nationalist fortress in a vast, Red-bordered lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Everlasting Year | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...three Mongol delegates showed no visible pain at the snub. Headed by Vice Prime Minister Youmzha Tsedenbal, they were encamped at Manhattan's swank Hotel Plaza, where they showed an avid liking for Western ways by wolfing filet mignons. Communication with them was practically impossible, since they were carefully shepherded away from reporters by their Soviet escort (and interpreter), one Captain V. Krivoshekov. Their only recorded comment: Paris was the most beautiful city they had ever seen, "but so old. In Ulan Bator [Outer Mongolia's capital], now, there is much building-something new popping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Socks | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

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