Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reason: the owners, some former nobles and princes of Mongolia, had not cultivated their land in the high-pressure fashion ordered by Red Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME...
...with French children and adults. Here rhythmically translated from the French, the stories are of hares, mice, alligators, a tree frog, a wind, an unborn chicken, all reverently humanized. France's Author Cendrars, alone in Russia at 15, made his living roaming from Lapland to the Caucasus; from Mongolia to Siberia to China. In 1908 he landed in Manhattan from a tramp steamer, turned poet. Later he lost his right arm in the War, wrote for the Swedish Ballet, compiled Negro poems, folklore...
...upon President Kraft's prediction for the future: "I do not suppose anyone else ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...
...Buddhist sculpture excavated in 1924 in Mongolia is placed on public exhibition for the first time, and is comprised of some 15 polychrome statuettes of unbaked clay which were discovered in the sand-buried city of Kara Khoto. The city was first correctly identified by Sir Aurel Stein; the Fogg Museum expedition of 1924 dug there and found, in addition to sculptures and fragments of unusual thirteenth-century frescos, a tenth-century bronze mirror. This is one of the very few Chinese mirrors taken from the earth by responsible persons, and is in exceptional condition...
Central Asiatic Expedition to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews. The discoveries of this year include an extraordinarily large rhinoceros-like animal and the lower jaw of a mastodon having large lower tusks, flattened so that they have a shovel effect and measure thirteen inches across...