Word: polis
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman from Ohio, whom the majority has elected as speaker, was endowed by nature with an aptitude for public affairs of a poli- tical character. He is today receiving the reward of years of struggle and effort...
Last week the brothers Roosevelt (Theodore Jr. and Kermit) called down from "the roof tree of the world" that they had got what they clambered up for. Their cable from Turkestan began: "Have had good success with the Ovis poli [Marco Polo sheep]. Have excellent group of four rams, besides several other specimens for the Field Museum. Are going straight to Srinagar;" that is, starting home...
...spirit of true science was with these politico-sportsman-adventurers. venturers. On first penetrating the Pamirs, they found the Ovis poli looking rather seedy, his winter coat not yet grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...
...They, the hunters, with a small, light-geared party would dash once more into the Pamir Mountains to the northward, whither they had started last month but turned back when they found that the special object of their arduous climb to "the rooftree of the world," the fabulous ovis poli (Marco Polo sheep), was shedding his summer coat and in no fit condition to be shot and brought home to the Field Museum (Chicago...
...were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME...