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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FINDS BUDDHIST ART IN WILDS OF CHINA | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...trade-route for centuries, and we found many of their original holy books, written on long paper scrolls, in the original Sanskrit, or translated by medieval scholars into Chinese or Turki. It was significant because of the light it shed on the influence these traders, straggling periodically over the mountain passes, had on the art of the early Chinese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ONE INNING SPOILS ROBINSON'S RECORD | 5/8/1924 | See Source »

...State who received diplomats in his shir) sleeves and had a secretary, later to become well known, who approved of the innovation??Walter Q. Gresham of Indiana; and his private secretary, who later fined the Standard Oil Co. $22,000,000 and became Dictator of Baseball, was Kenesaw Mountain Landis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Book* | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

...project for installing a hydro-electric plant. After many years of this practical mining, he founded a firm of engineers specializing in construction of shafts and mining plants. His four big mining ventures were successful; two in Colorado?"Tomboy" and "Smugglers Union"; and two in California?"Plymouth"and "Mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serene Silence | 4/28/1924 | See Source »

Indian railroad, on its crusade for the top of the world. It will circle the mountain and approach from the northeast, by the route found most practicable on the previous attempts. Before June 1 success or failure will have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Off for Everest | 4/7/1924 | See Source »

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