Word: poly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political economists care, and of all political economists, none cares more intensely than Dr. Augustus Raymond Hatton of Cleveland. Dr. Hatton has taught poli- tical science at Western Reserve University since 1907, has served on Cleveland's city council since 1924. When he announced last week that he was leaving Cleveland, the reason was his deep interest in good city government...
Turkestan, Mongolia. Assistant Director James L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan) and Explorer William J. Morden of Chicago reached home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands...
Archie Roosevelt: "My brothers, Theodore and Kermit, were robbed of their unique distinction as hunters of ovis poli when, last week, an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History, under William J. Morden and James L. Clark, cabled from Peking its return from Tibet and Turkestan with enough of the creatures to make a large family group. The despatch said ovis poli were 'not so rare'; reported that the natives slaughter them wholesale for meat; reported seeing 33 in one herd. . . . My brother, Theodore, was active last week making speeches in his native state (New York...
...brothers Roosevelt (Theodore, Kermit) collected, as everyone knows, specimens of Ovis poli on the Pamir Plateau last summer (TIME, Oct. 12, SCIENCE...
Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Jr., returned recently from an expedition to the mountain fast-nesses of Asia, undertaken in the interests of the Field Museum of Chicago. The rare Ovis Poli was one of the baits that lured the expedition eastward, and the specimen that is to be presented to Harvard is the first one to make its appearance in New England...