Word: mongolian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asia. Speak of digging in Asia and you think of Roy Chapman Andrews. After another year on the uncivilized side of the Gobi Desert, he is on his way back to the American Museum of Natural History with plunder from Mongolian beds where "the fossils were so thick they almost interlaced." Paleontologist Andrews shares the view of many a scientist that Mid-Asia was the birthplace and distribution centre of mammalia. His chief finds: many more fossil dinosaur eggs (two years ago he fetched several dozen); several baluchitherium (early rhinoceros) skulls; an unknown two-horned fossil, seemingly a primitive giraffe...
...flying corps. He befriended many charitable organizations and churches, presented the Chapel of St. Saviour to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In all that he did there was a quality of canny vision, of testy self-will. His astuteness was reflected in his arrogant, slightly clouded, Mongolian eyes; his hunger for life in his red and heavy lips which, in later life, he concealed with a mustache...
Floods at Canton in the extreme South and at Kalgan in the extreme North caused much damage. In Canton, the Chu-Kiang river overflowed and serious apprehension for the safety of the city was entertained. At Kalgan, a commercial city on the Mongolian border, 700 lives were lost and over $1,000,000 worth of damage was done...
...anthropology of the tale, as given in the press, involves the use of the popular phrase "Nordic stock," as well as the blessed words "Paleolithic or cro-Magnon type" and "neolithic Mongolian." But the visitors will have to submit their jaws to the calipers of local science before these adjectives can be sorted...
...Mongolian independence was guaranteed by Russia in 1912 and in 1913 a Chino-Russian pact recognized the autonomy of the country, but under Chinese sovereignty. The Russian revolution of 1917, however, brought swarms of Bolsheviki into the country and the Hutuktu was forced in 1919 to petition China for the cancelation of Mongolia's independence...