Word: obi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Third Day. Ever eastward, she crossed the Obi River, the Yenisei, the Lena. For 300 miles passengers saw no towns, just forests, rivers and swamps flecked occasionally by a typee. For some hours the ship lost radio contact with civilization, then picked up a Japanese station, then the U. S. Naval station at Peiping (Peking). She was near the arctic circle. Weather was chilly, the moon ruddy...
Solemn priests of the Shinto faith entered the private apartments of Her Majesty, the Empress Nagako, at Tokyo last week, and reverently wound about her waist an obi of purest white silk some twelve feet long. Previously this girdle had been purified and made sacred at the Imperial Shrine. Its presentation to the Empress was in the nature of a symbolic pr yer that she might give birth in a few short weeks to a manchild, her first...
...Europe, although it is 675 miles shorter than the Volga. It is the 23rd longest river in the world. Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...