Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...court to shave off their beards. The commandment had a significance beyond the capillary, for the beards of the Russian nobles were copied from the men who lived to the Eastward; the monarch's bare chin was the outward and visible sign of his detestation of the Orient. A wise man once called Asia the subconscious mind of Europe, and since the beard is to the face what the East is to Western civilization many scholars have thought that Peter was quite right to shave. He did not want to wear his subconscious on his chin. But the Shah...
...determination to get the Orient out of Russia he moved his capital away from Moscow, built himself a Versailles, procured a Pompadour, and made hunting into a pageant, trotting out on horseback like a Bourbon, with ribbons, hounds, bugles, spears, and streamers. Because the rug showed a hunting scene he became very fond...
...Orient was not, until last week, particularly fruitful. The broils of bellicose Chinamen disrupted Digger Roy Chapman Andrews' plans for another (fourth) season of fossil collecting in the Gobi desert, costing him his $225,000 camel train. He returned to the U. S. last fortnight. Two Russian expeditions-Colonel Kozlov's in the Khangai Mountains of Mongolia and Professor Mechaninov's nearer home at Baku in Azer-baijan-met with success. Colonel Kozlov found "unquestionable traces" of an ice sheet having covered the Khangais. (This data may prove of importance to Digger Andrews and his paleontologists...
...Orient's big yield was announced from Batavia by Professor Heberlein of the Dutch Medical Service. At Trinil, in Central Java, near the spot where the Dutch medical missionary, Eugene Dubois, found two teeth, a thigh bone and the top of a skull...
...University was the second since the World War, and the first meeting to take place outside of Europe. Scholars from two Hemispheres comened at Smith Halls as guests of the University and were housed in the Freshman dorintories, Envoys from China, India, Turkey, and Japan represented the Orient, while England, France, Germany, Russia, Italy Belgium, Switzerland, Poland and Czecho Slovakia sent representatives from Europe...