Word: turkestan
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...Regions bounding Persia are (in clockwise order) ; the Republic of Turkey; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia; the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic; the Caspian Sea; the Socialist Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan ("Turkestan") ; the Amirate of Afghanistan ; the Kalat State of Anglo-Indian Baluchistan; the Gulf of Oman ; the Persian Gulf and (completing the clockwise circle) the Kingdom of Irak, a British mandate...
...Balkans-the first leg of a proposed motor trip around the world. In a second car went a chauffeur, a camera man. Last year Fraulein Stinnes won the women's reliability tour (500 miles) of South Germany. Asked if she had no fear of the wilds of Persia, Turkestan, Mongolia, China, North America, she replied: Not the slightest. I shall be absorbed...
...exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died. One youthful male Communist was likewise bound, reviled by the Ichans (Priests), and beaten to death with flails, despite attempts by the police to rescue him. Kindlers of Asia. All over the province of Samarkand and throughout Turkestan similar outbursts were provoked last week by "Woman's Day." This remote region, so long slumberously out of the world, seemed to be kindling again from the sparks struck by Soviet ideals. The human fuel there is crude and lumpy; but so are the logs one needs...
Near Tashkent, Russian Turkestan, a tigress, famished, sneaked into a farmhouse, devoured two peasants...
...Turkestan, Mongolia. Assistant Director James L. Clark of the American Museum of Natural History (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...