Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold hearts of the polar ice-packs and a few large jungle-guarded areas of the Amazon basin have escaped the eye and tread of civilized man. Only a few other regions have escaped man's mapping and surveying instruments: the vast forests and swamps of northeastern Siberia, the fastnesses of northeastern Tibet, the bandit-infested northern reaches of the Gobi Desert, the sandy centre of Australia, the eastern slopes of the unmapped Andes, the vast Patagonian icecap stretching over South America's narrow end. the snow-swept islands stretching vaguely north from Canada's "barren lands...
...World War." ("Should we unfortunately become certain that such a state exists," the Pope added, "we should repeat the prayer of the Scriptures, Dissipa gentes quae bella volunt."*) Regenerators. "[Pray] for all who suffer for the profession and defense of the faith as in Mexico, Russia and Siberia, preparing by their sufferings the regeneration of those countries." He wished prayers for Roman Catholic missionaries and special prayers for those missionaries in China, where some have been martyred. Depression. The world-wide economic Depression and Unemployment "make us feel more vividly the need of a better social and international adjustment, inspired...
...Islands. Soviet professors aboard the icebreaker Sedov discovered two new Arctic islands near the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia. They named them Wise and Kameniev Islands after two expedition members. They suspected their finds were part of a large archipelago. Some of the party went ashore on Fridtjof Nansen Land for a cold year's stay to operate the world's most northerly radio station...
Hollow-eyed, footsore, prematurely aged, Rudolf Kutz and Johann Mischalski stumbled into Beuthen, German Silesia last week, sought out the homes they had left 15 years before. They were World War prisoners. For the past 15 months they have made their way from a prison camp in northern Siberia through Moscow, to Kovno, then over the Polish border to Warsaw and southwest to Silesia...
...factor neither President Coolidge nor Secretary Hughes mentioned: the Soviet's determination to meet U. S. claims with counterclaims based on the use of U. S. troops against the Reds in North Russia (TIME, Dec. 9) and Siberia. Comrade Josef Stalin has declared that these Russian claims are five times the size of the U. S. claims. The Soviet Government likewise contends that any payment it makes on the debts must not be accepted as such but as a sort of "super-interest" on industrial credits it expects to receive in return...