Word: siberian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne and Priest continued west to Urumchi the capital of Chinese Turkestan, where, after some delay, they received the Russians' permission to strike to the northwest and take the trans-Siberian Railroad to Peking...
...time set was 25 days. Starting from Manhattan, the Globe-racers are to fly in 30 hours to Victoria, B. C., board the Empress of Russia, fastest (8-day) trans-Pacific vessel, jump from Japan to Vladivostok in a Japanese destroyer (it is hoped), spend nine days on the Siberian railroad, fly from Moscow to Berlin, to Amsterdam, to Cherbourg, hoping to catch the Mauretania, fastest (5-day) trans-Atlantic vessel...
Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...
Some big, shaggy Tian Shan ibexes, shaggier Tian Shan sheep, still shaggier Asiatic bears, some Siberian roe (small deer), some Tahr gazelles, some goitered gazelles, and some 600 small birds and mammals, all dead and on the pack ponies of two lively brothers Roosevelt, entered the ancient city of Kashgar (eastern Turkestan) last week. "Fine success," cable those sons of a great hunter, Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt. They had come back to their base from the rugged Tian Shan mountains after losing ponies, breath and weight in the arduous passes. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie...
Maude. Explorer Roald Amundsen's schooner Maude, icebound all last winter in the region of the New Siberian Islands, southwest of Bering Strait, in a fruitless attempt to drift over the North Pole, was reported last week at East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight...