Word: africa
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Africa for centuries has been the object of the cupidity of Europe. England, France, and Germany now occupy the larger part of it, leaving Tripolitania the only important section not in the control of the Christians. Yet this region as it is today is not a country which is fitted to produce on the modern scale. Rivers run through it into the sea, but in the dry season they become simply dried up river beds. So Italy, in undertaking to conquer Tripoli and use it as a colony, must be prepared to spend years in introducing modern methods and systems...
Italy had no moral right to step across to Africa, as Tripoli had given her no cause for war. But she is politically justified, for she needs room. It is a case of now or never, for France might step in from Tunis and Algeria at any time, were she not occupied elsewhere. Italy, however, is going to encounter difficulties. The city of Tripoli is taken, but not the country. Water is scarce even in the city, camels are absolutely necessary for transportation, and food is in the absolute control of the Turkish rulers of the land...
...Bryce is very well known in America. His great work "The American Commonwealth," which appeared in 1888, was the first in which the institutions of the United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point of view of a historian and a constitutional lawyer. After a visit to South Africa in 1897, he published a volume of "Impressions" of that country, which carried great weight when the Boer War was being discussed. In his early life he was a notable mountain-climber, ascending Mount Ararat in 1876; and, later, was author of a book on mountain climbing...
...Henry Maurice Sheffer, the Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in Europe; Mr. William Edward Lunt, English Financial History in London; Mr. Langdon Warner, Buddhist Art in Japan and Korea; Mr. John Avery Lomax, American Ballads in various parts of the country; Dr. Simeon Burt Wolbach, Tropical Diseases in West Africa...
...During this time he made several hunting expeditions after big game, not only for the shooting, but also for the purpose of studying the life-history of the animals, and the principles of protective coloration. Shortly thereafter Dr. Smith made an extensive trip, first to Somaliland and British East Africa, then from Alaska down through Korea, China, Java, and Persia. He then returned to Zermatt, and climbed several of the highest peaks in Switzerland, among them the Matterhorn, Weisshorn, and Dent-Blanche...