Word: tian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Manhattan) and Explorer William J. Morden of Chicago reached home last fortnight with numerous Asiatic quadrupeds for stuffing-ovis poli, ibex, roe deer, gazelles, etc., etc.-and with anecdotes which needed no stuffing. Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia. One evening an armed band of Mongols surrounded their camel train, confiscated all arms and ammunition, waved aside the travelers' passports, tied their hands and soaked ropes to make them cut deeper. The Mongols explained they had never...
...home college of the Restoration Movement in Christianity, which movement was led by Alexander Campbell, founder and first President of the College. This great movement has culminated in the establishment of thousands of Protestant churches under the name of Churches of Christ or Chris tian Churches...
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...
...mountainous fastnesses of Kashmir. Last week, they telegraphed from Dras, 75 miles beyond Srinagar, that they had scrambled safely through fearsome Zoji Pass, were leaving next morning over heavy snows for Chim-shakarcu, first of nine stages to Leh. From Leh, it is still several marches into the fabulous Tian Shan Mountains where they - Explorers Theodore Jr. and Kermit Roosevelt and George K. Cherrie-purpose to draw deadly bead upon the Ovis Poli (sheep ancestor) and other fauna for the Field Museum of Chicago (TIME...