Word: leh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...guns, blankets, maps and nerve, and bored on foot into the 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...
...athletes will be able to annex upwards of 20 points in the finals on Saturday. Watters is counted on to annex five points in the half mile. He will be out against a tough field,--Masters of Georgetown. Higgias of Holy Cross, Hellfrich and Euck of Penn State, and Leh of Princeton. All these men have turned in remarkable performances during the past season, but Watters' exhibition in the Princeton meet three weeks ago, when he turned in a 1.55 1-5 half with little effort, mark him as the most likely man to break the tape on Saturday...
...head of the geological department at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, to be Professor of Geology for a term of one year; of Dr. John H. Mueller, now associate professor at Columbia University, to be Assistant Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology in the Medical School; of Lieutenant Colonel William J. LeH. Lyster, U. S. A., to be Professor of Military Science and Tactics at the Medical School so long as he is detailed there by the government; and of Langdon Warner '03, archaeologist and recently director of the Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia, as Fellow of the Fogg Museum for research...
...Yard Dash.-Johnson, Leh. Lambert, Jones, Morton, Conger, Gordon, Hitzrot, Stevenson, Trimble, Webster...