Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trekked across Africa afoot, thinking what he would do with himself, when the expansive, fertile beauty of the unexplored country he was passing through gave him an answer. He would, after studying at Oxford University, strive to make the English race governors of air Africa, of all the world...
...proceedings of the League, and both France and Italy have interests and ambitions in Northern Africa. Consequently it is to their advantage that the North African peoples should cherish no dangerous ideas of nationalism, nor any hopes of successful defiance of European power. Spain has already set such ideas afoot by her incapacity to subdue the Moors, and France and Italy can ill afford to see the rise of similar convictions in Egypt. Great Britain, then, might logically hope for the support of these two powers during the League discussions, and such support would be by no means negligible...
Meanwhile, an effort is afoot to have the Presbyterian Church at its next General Assembly legalize the position of Dr. Fosdick as permanent special preacher in a Presbyterian pulpit...
...despatch in the Democratic New York Times: "Last week hurried conferences on the subject of finance as well as organization were held by the party leaders here and in New York. Chairman Butler conferred with E. T. Stotesbury, the Philadelphia partner of Morgan & Co., and plans were immediately set afoot in Pennsylvania by W. T. Mellon of Pittsburgh and Joseph R. Grundy of Philadelphia to raise $600,000 in that State for use elsewhere...
...Manhattan this season and presumably the Local of the Back Slappers' Union is determined that he shall feel at home. Dissension has arisen in their ranks as to what to call him. Originally, he was discovered as Franz; later it became Ferenc, and there is a distinct movement afoot at present to simplify it to just plain Francis. But that is one of those problems that must simply be left to work themselves out in their own way. At any rate he will follow his great successes Liliom, Fashions for Men and The Swan with The Red Mill...