Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Voronoff in the inconspicuous city of Adana, some 30 miles inland from the southern coast of Turkey. The chief question of vital interest was whether there would also be present one of the lively young chimpanzees which are bred especially for Dr. Voronoff's convenience in French West Africa by the Pasteur Institute. With thin sharp knives Surgeon Voronoff can slice from a chimpanzee glands which he then swiftly inserts in a human so unscrupulous as to wish to profit by the poor beast's loss...
SPECTACULAR The Trail of '98 (Dolores Del Rio), Wings (Clara Bow and Charles Rogers), The Last Command (Emil Jannings), The Drums of Love (Lionel Barrymore and Mary Philbin), Simba (animals clicked in Africa by the Martin Johnsons...
Last fortnight two plant explorers, Robert Louis Piemeisel and L. W. Kephart of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, who had been nine months questing for grass in Africa, returned with 160 varieties. They had suffered from extreme cold in the highlands of Kenya and Tanganyika, had gathered grass seeds within sight of glaciers 200 feet thick, had faced down an elephant in a bamboo jungle, had brought back with them samples of 75% of all the forage grasses of the region. Their hope is to lengthen the season of green pastures throughout the land, thereby reducing the cost...
...Similarly in 1868 James Gordon Bennett sent Journalist Henry Morton Stanley to locate David Livingstone in Africa...
...English vicar, the brother of John Cowper Powys, author and lecturer and T. F. Powys, novel-writer, a graduate of Cambridge. In 1909, afflicted with tuberculosis, he went to a Swiss sanatorium, an experience about which he later wrote a book. In 1914, still diseased, he went to South Africa for five years: this visit supplied the material for Ebony & Ivory, Black Laughter. In 1920, he came to the U. S. without fame, wealth or a wife; in 1925, he left the U. S. with all three and lived in England for two years, writing about Henry Hudson...