Word: mongolian
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...race seemingly unconnected with the surrounding Mongolian peoples, thought to have migrated to the northern islands of Japan from Manchuria, a remnant of Neolithic stock. They are taller than the Japanese, heavier-built; their hairiness has been exaggerated from the fact that the men never shave and the women, admiring hirsute embellishment, daub themselves with mustache designs in pot-smut. They are bear-worshipers, non-agricultural...
...impossibility that such a culture could grow up in situ, as it were, is always brought forward by those who think they see superficial similarities between the Mayas and certain Mongolian peoples. The calendar alone, which no one has tried to prove originated outside of America, shows the mental equipment of the Mayas, the presence of genius in their midst...
...division of Asiatic exploration. Mr. Andrews had wisely leaped beneath a box car when the airplanes soared into view, and was not among the five persons killed (all Chinese). Emerging from his impromptu shelter, he continued to supervise the loading of the car with scientific paraphernalia for his latest Mongolian expedition. The despatches stated that three other U. S. scientists accompany him, made no mention of his Parisian wife, Yvette Borup...
They recalled that in 1919 "Little Hsu" performed the miracle of marching 10,000 men across the Gobi Desert and the Mongolian steppes to Kalgan and Urga, where he deposed the so called "Living Buddha" (Hutukhtu) and blasted the power of numerous Mongolian...
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...