Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Oceanology. The hottest part of the Atlantic Ocean runs about 350 miles (5°) north of the Equator, from Africa to South America. Carribbean waters are just as warm (80° F.). Almost as warm, and much higher in level than the open ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. The combination of Gulf temperature and level with the West Indies volcanic action and the twirling of the Earth sets a current of warm water running north along the American coast to Newfoundland-the Gulf Stream. A wall of cold water separates the Gulf Stream from the North American continent...
...prove himself he is now in the neighborhood of Cape Town, Cape Colony, Africa-on a two-year jaunt from Cape Town to Cairo. With him are Professor R. L. Mannen, geologist, of Texas University, and Dr. C. Ernest Cadle, head of the Denver-African Expedition...
...Metre High Hurdles. Won by Sidney Atkinson of South Africa, 14 4/5 sec., equalling world's record...
First Places in the men's track and field events were captured by the U. S. 8; Finland, 5; Canada, 2; Great Britain, 2, France, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, Sweden...
...with the swan song 2,000 pages, he has done numerous other novels (The Patrician, etc.), stories (Five Tales, etc.), and powerful plays (Strife, Justice, The Skin Game, etc.). Of recent years his hobby has been launching obscure writers. Trader Horn (TIME, June 27, 1927) he heralded from South Africa. Bambi (TIME, July 23) he praised because it had minimized the rough tedium of a channel crossing...