Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until 1924 Buddhists in Tibet, Mongolia & China looked up to two Lamas or Living Buddhas: the Panchen Lama or spiritual head of Buddhism, and the Dalai Lama or temporal ruler. Squabbling between these two holy men (fostered, said some observers, by British agents who found the Dalai Lama much more tractable) caused the Panchen Lama to flee from his headquarters in Tibet to China where he travels about, oblivious to and unharmed by all civil wars...
Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews of the American Museum of Natural History, barred from further excavations in Mongolia by the Chinese Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities, stopped for a polo game at Peiping on his way home, fell off his pony, broke his collarbone...
...dinosaur. The fragments were black, rough, pitted. Near the locality, in the same geological formation, the scientists were surprised to unearth the tooth of a mammal. Mammals are seldom found in cretaceous formations. Other dinosaur eggs known today were found seven years ago by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews in Mongolia. His eggs were estimated to be several million years older than Dr. Jepsen's. The only other eggs were unearthed years ago in England. British paleontologists did not recognize them at the time, threw them on a rubbish heap in the basement of the British museum. Several years...
...organ, Cheesekraft. A typical Kraft-talk by "J. L.": "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...
...early in 1929 a great many of the forged British and American notes were despatched to Mongolia for General Feng* while large amounts were sent by the Soviet Government to Irkutsk, Siberia, to be used in the Far East...