Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bulawayo (South Eastern Africa) that the monkeys were sitting almost motionless on the lower branches of the trees. The air was as thick as chicken gumbo. Suddenly, the animals and the natives were disturbed by a noise like nothing they had ever heard before. An airplane shot down from the sky and came to an abrupt stop in the tangled grasses of a clearing near the village. A woman stepped out unsteadily and fainted. Two natives picked her up and carried her into Bulawayo, where they gave her some sour milk. She developed a fever, and said her name...
...before their marriage, last October, she had taken the plane up above London to establish an altitude record of 19,000 feet. A few weeks later, she had kissed Sir James goodbye, embarked for Cape Town, South Africa, whence she quickly began to fly across all Africa toward London. If she succeeded, a new female flight record would be hers, but a rival, an "other woman" loomed...
...England which will be chosen in rotation from the Oxford, Cambridge and National Union of Students teams, and the third for 1928, will be an Australian team. Arrangements have been made for the reception of a Canadian team in 1929, and English speaking debaters from Germany. Holland, and South Africa have been negotiating for speaking tours among the American colleges...
...problem of the negro of America home at Harlem has been periodically attended to. The floods brought attention to the levee negro. But Catfish Row is likewise Africa in America. The attention drawn by the Liberal Club to a worthy drama has involved a too-familiar identification of the name of Harvard with the lighted overhangs of Tremont and Boylston Street; yet the identification seems this time not unjustified...
...Photographers of the current cinema Simba (lion). Mr. Eastman's hunt having ended, they, are at present in Africa on their own filming enterprise...