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...know it." ¶Contemplated progress made on the naming of 2,000 minor planets circulating mostly between Mars and Jupiter and of which the largest is Ceres (diameter 480 mi.). ¶Heard the Commission on Meteorites strongly urge the Soviet Government to make further study of the Siberian fall of 1908, heaviest fall of meteorites in history, which scorched trees for miles around, annihilated 1,500 reindeer, dammed the Ognia River. The French Government was also urged to push thorough examination of the Chinguetti, an iron meteorite 325 ft. long and weighing possibly a million tons, which a French expedition...
...murder mystery, announces a hypothesis that life may be indefinitely prolonged in a human being by broiling him over a phenomenally hot flame. With this point firmly in mind, the scientist's nephew Leo Vincey (Randolph Scott) and his associate (Nigel Bruce) begin paddling off to the Siberian wilds where a family legend indicates that an ancestor named John Vincey encountered such a flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors...
...Travelers reaching Moscow from the Far East via the Trans-Siberian report trains of "Kirov Exiles" moving eastward under armed guard...
...Ambassador was on horseback, teaching Bolsheviks to play polo. With experienced, hard-driving Counselor of Embassy John Wiley plugging at his side. Ambassador Bullitt stormed the Kremlin again & again on the issues of credits and debts. Some four months ago Ambassador Bullitt left Moscow by way of the Trans-Siberian Railway, flew extensively up & down China and arrived late last year in Washington where last week he was advising the President...
...addition to his work here, where he was intimately connected with the Peabody Museum as Curator of Ethnology, Mr. Dixon made several expeditions to Mongolia and Siberia. He made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the physiography and geological formation of Northern Asia and established reciprocal relations between Siberian Museums and similar institutions in the United States in 1901, which have resulted in much valuable information concerning Mongolia...