Word: thibet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial Institute of Research of Japan to the Fogg Art Museum to cooperate in investigations of early Western and Eastern art," stated Professor Langdon Warner '03, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Warner has made numerous trips of exploration and excavation in central China and Thibet in search of remains of Maya civilization and has just gotten back from a visit in Japan...
German. For two and a half years the German dug the brisk point of his intelligence into Gobi's secretive sand. Through the desert he trekked southward accompanied by obscure missionaries. When the sands of the desert grew cold in the mountain passes of Thibet, his feet chilled and hardened. Feet still half-frozen when he arrived at Leh, in northern India, he announced happily to the world that the scientific purpose of his wanderings (not stated) had been accomplished. He is Dr. Wilhelm Filchner...
...Theatre Guild. Since then those who were stirred by it hasten to see Mr. Lawson's latest. In this one they were disappointed; Mr. Lawson's modern manner has sent his play flying in every direction at once. It is in 21 scenes, some of them in Thibet. It purports to be a satire on modern life. There are capitalists, lamas, undertakers, English generals, prostitutes, Japs. Mr. Lawson jumbles them bitterly, bewilderingly...
...Asia. The domain of the early Tatar khans, in the Altai mountains of Thibet and the Gobi Desert, is now the archaeological province of General Peter K. Kozlov, Russian geographer and digger persistent. Twenty years ago he found the dead city of Khara-Khoto whose last khan, Hara-Tzyan-Tzyun, buried 80 carloads of silver in a profound well before being wiped out by an Imperial Chinese army in the 13th Century. Digger Kozlov frequently revisits the region for further data. His latest expedition set out from Moscow last spring...
Self-sequestered Thibet, with 2,000,000 souls, has only one motor vehicle, a motor cycle, for its stamping, prayer-whirling priests to scowl...