Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew him as the author of The Multilateral Treaty to Renounce War as an Instrument of National Policy. He has just received, last week, the unanimous promises to sign his treaty of the following nations: Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, Australia, Poland, New Zealand, India, Rumania, South Africa, Czechoslovakia, Irish Free State.* Never before had so many nations bound themselves with the U. S. to take a momentous step...
...blackest horror in darkest Africa is sleeping sickness. Very different from encephalitis lethargica, the sleeping sickness found in the U. S., this disease is caused by trypanosomes (parasitic protozoa) carried by the tsetse fly. Its toll is about 100,000 human victims a year and all the domestic animals the tsetse fly can find...
...Plumer's prescription went unheeded, and his resignation was accepted by the King-Emperor, who appointed to succeed him another old soldier, but less peppery, Lt.-Col. Sir John Robert Chancellor, 58, Scotch, a veteran of the Indian and World Wars, and, since 1923, Governor of Southern Rhodesia, Africa...
Another object is the finding of evidence which will throw light on the theory that the Americas were once joined to Europe and Africa. Similar flora & fauna found in widely separated areas and on intervening islands give support to the theory. The massive dredge biting its way across the ocean floor may add geologic evidence about earth changes...
...volume two, refuting all past and future doubts as to authenticity. She emphasizes the difficulty of computing dates because the trader's 74 years have (conveniently) mingled and mellowed into great confusion: instance his conviction that the Great War was in 1902. She records his various returns to Africa-offering an unmistakable loophole for the "lifetime" in Africa...