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Three motor cars lately jounced and bounced along the dusty pot-holed road into Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, ancient seat of Khans, golden city of Western poets. They had come from Harbin, Manchuria, some 4,000 miles. Their chauffeurs were moderately excited because none of them had had to regrease his car. At Harbin they had been supplied with the invention of one Alexander Muhacheff, Russian engineer; an oil extracted from the seeds of a weed that grows wild over vast areas of Manchuria. Despatches last week from Peking stated that some Japanese gentlemen had interested themselves in Engineer Muhaeheff...
...this year's production of the Princeton University Triangle Club is well under way, with the selection of cast and chorus completed, and the book and musical numbers well advanced. The show will follow the customary nature of a musical comedy, with all oriental setting, and is entitled "Samarkand...
...blocked the plot of the King of the Beggars to kill the Calif, rose to a great position in the State, fell because he could not countenance the Calif's cruelty to the captured Beggar King and left Bagdad behind him to make the Golden Journey to Samarkand...
...doubtful that the Soviet promise to end anti-British propaganda means much, as the Communist Party, which drills and sends out the agitators to Turkey, Persia and the distant goal of British India, from the propaganda schools of Samarkand and Tashkent, is technically not the same as the Soviet Government. The British prestige in Asia is the first line of defense that any such combination must destroy, and that will take more than propaganda...
...will join Professor R. Pumpelly of Newport, formerly Professor of Geology in Harvard. Professor Davis and Professor Pumpelly will then make a trip of four months through western Asia, to study the geology and geography of that region. They will cross the Caspian, pass Mero, and proceed to Samarkand and Tashkeut. On their return they will cross the plains, passing the Sea of Aral and the southern end of the Ural Mountains, to Orenboorg in southeastern Russia. From Orenboorg they will return to the United States, and Professor Davis will be in Cambridge at the opening of the next College...