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...Lords, here in a halo of gore and glory one day, gone next week into uttermost limbo, then back again after several years with brilliance undimmed, braggadocio redoubled. Last week from the limbo of a remote Buddhist monastery in Tibet there returned to the everlasting Chinese fray Comet Wu Pei-fu, the "Scholar War Lord...
...Gobi. Begun last month was another of Roy Chapman Andrews' perennial excursions into the dismal wastes of Gobi Desert. Prime object of the expedition: to find traces of some twigs from the family tree of the "Peking Man." world's earliest human discovered comparatively recently near Peking by Pei Wen-chung, Chinese archeologist...
...After the War he fought in Russia for the Bolsheviks. Twice he has been condemned to death; by the Bolsheviks, by a Chinese secret society. Now he lives in Paris, on a boat in the Seine. Other books: The Son of the Grand Eunuch, Elegant Infidelities of Madame Li Pei Fou, The Woman Who Commanded...
...Parker Fellowships for the year 1930-31 have been awarded to three students of physiology. Two, at present, are instructors in Physiology at Harvard and the third is coming to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. They are M. I. Gregersen, Hudson Hoagland, and Pei-sung Tang...
That single archaic skull and the commingled bones of the ten bodies and their limbs, all fossilized, scientific diggers recently dug up, a Peiping despatch reported last week. Actual finder was Pei Wenchung, Chinese archeologist, in the party of Dr. Davidson Black, Canadian paleontologist. The find is undoubtedly the most important archeological discovery of the year. It provides one complete and nine nearly complete skeletons of the "Peking man," pithecanthropus erectus, whose vestiges heretofore have consisted of but a skull top, a leg bone, a few teeth...