Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Himalayas ran news. Sometime ago- goodness knew when-and for some reason or other-goodness knew what-an army of 60,000 sturdy soldiers marched from Nepal and were last week ominously approaching Lhasa, famed "Forbidden City," capital of that remote pope the Grand Dalai Lama of Tibet...
...collection of cattle comprises eleven different kinds of buffaloes, from Africa, India, America, Malaya, Java, and Tibet. The sheep and goat heads include specimens from the high mountains of North America, Asia, Corsica, Sardinia, and the Alps...
...looked on the bleak Himalayas and crossed the forbidden hills of Tibet honored Manhattan with his attention last week. "I was forcibly reminded of Mount Everest when I arrived," he declared. "This was when I saw the new Chrysler Building...
...ruddy, stalwart Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 66, of Westerham, Kent, native of India, veteran army officer and diplomatist, treaty-maker with Tibet (1904)*, committee head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave...
...geographical position of Lhasa, capital of Tibet, long forbidden ground to Europeans, was determined by the mathematical process of triangulation after considerable work in which Sir Francis was prominent...