Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian Era. As to the missions in Chinese Turkestan, they have shown, unexpectedly, that Chinese Turkestan, now inhabited by a Turkish population of Mohammedans, was untill the end of the first millennium A. D. the area of a Buddhist culture, developed by a population speaking Indo-European languages, that is to say, languages of the same stock as almost all the languages of modern Europe. These languages. Tokhanian. Eastern Iranian. Togdian, have not only disappeared many centuries ago, but, with the exception of Togdian...
...least half a millennium no one has thought of Chinamen or Chinawomen as pioneers. They have chosen not the virile and womanly covered wagon, but the sendentary and exquisite silken robe. Today China has only one Daniel Boone -the great Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week he lectured Chinafolk severely for their timid sit-by-the-hearthishness and failure to pioneer. "Is it any wonder," he roared, "that we are laughed at by imperialist countries, who treat us contemptuously, as though we were their little grandsons? They do not even esteem us as much as their cats and dogs...
...half a millennium at least Peru has run the whole golden gamut of romance, always with deep, appropriate, surging undertones of blood. In the Department of La Libertad one may see, today, a vast dilapidated circuit of walls enclosing an area of eleven square miles, the fabled and yet factual City of Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still...
...would be a rash man who would state that we are finally entering the industrial millennium, but there is a great ray of hope that America is finding herself on the road to a solution of the greatest of all her problems. That problem is to adjust our economic system to our racial ideals...
...vast difference between an "anarchical communist" and an "idealistic anarchist" is, of course, that between a resolute, active borer from within Society, and a dreamy yearner after millennium. But the Court, a military tribunal, seemed unimpressed by even so glaring a disparity...