Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just 14 months ago (TIME, April 12, 1926), Feng Yu-hsiang was driven from Peking by the great Manchurian War Lord Chang Tso-lin, who is still supreme there. Marshal Feng retreated into Mongolia, consolidated his forces there, then hurried to Moscow where he allegedly obtained enormous grants of gold, supplies, arms, ammunition. Therefore it was pretty to see last week, how Marshal Feng managed to convey the impression that he is not a Communist, yet carefully did not disavow or antagonize the Soviet Government...
...first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall be absorbed...
...Mongolia (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923); Dr. William Lyon Phelps of Yale, optimistic critic of literature; Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale, economist-Prohibitionist; Dr. Max L. Margolis of Dropsie College, philologist and Jewish historian...
Alarmist travelers from northern China told: 1) that a Soviet Russian army of 50,000 men is assembling in Mongolia north of Peking; 2) that the "Christian" War Lord Feng Yu-hsiang is moving slowly down upon North Central China with his large itinerant army (TIME...
Turkestan, Mongolia. Assistant Director James L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) and Explorer William J. Morden of Chicago reached home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands...