Word: shian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manner. Author Dreiser has no sense of style, would be hard to imitate. His writing is ponderous, jumbled, awkward. This is typical: "Indeed, the life and light that was in her, if life and light it was, was a wholly quaint and laura-jean-shian thing, a smattering or perhaps, better yet, compote of hearsay culture as well as utility . . . plus gentility that was innate but colored by spindrift and spume concerning how ladies and gentlemen in some fabulous land of gentility (England principally, I believe; the old South next) conducted themselves...
...Cherrie was the naturalist who accompanied Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. on their expedition to Chinese Turkestan and the Tian Shian Mountains...
...expedition crossed the Himalayas Mountains, traversing several passes, which have never been attempted before by white men. After collecting many speciments of bear, deer, mountain sheep and birds in the Tian Shian range, Mr. Cherrie returned through the Caucasus Mountains to Constantinople...
When in 1925, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and his brother Kermit accepted the offer of the Field Museum of Chicago to go into Chinese. Turkestan and the Tian Shian Mountains through India and across the Himalayas, they chose the naturalist as a member of the expedition...
After traversing the Chinese Turkestan, the party arrived at the Tian Shian Mountains. Here a remarkable collection of bear, deer, mountain sheep, and birds, was obtained...