Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some interest to those who follow the sporting items in TIME to know that a remarkable long distance runner has recently arrived in London from South Africa and it will not be amiss to keep tab on English dailies and weeklies till the end of the present month. The name of the runner is Arthur F. Newton, who last July shattered the world's record for 100 miles by covering that distance in 14 hrs. and 43 minutes. . . . Newton was educated at Bedford and left England 21 years ago to farm in Rhodesia, South Africa when only a youth...
...maker of these safe but sizzling statements, last week, was German Celebrity Dr. Emil Ludwig, 47. He stepped off the Majestic with his handsome wife, espoused in South Africa when he was 22. Throughout the U. S. his Napoleon, Bismarck and Wilhelm Hohenzollern, the Last of the Kaisers, are best selling biographies...
Several years ago, Dr. Abbot led an expedition 30,000 miles to find the best place in the world from which to observe the sun. Finally, he picked the peak of Mount Brukkaros in the land of the Hottentots,* 200 miles from Windhoek, capital of Southwest Africa. There, scientists with delicate instruments will go to catch sunbeams that have never been caught before...
...like," Dr. Danner said, "but still there is much room for encouragement. The results in Hawaii the Philippines, and Korea still appear to be better than elsewhere. In other places the percentage does not appear to be so high, but whether you go to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon, India, or Africa, you find persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when...
Extracting palm kernels, picking kola nuts, pressing out palm oil and tending ginger plants are still the toilsome daily occupations of some 200,000 slaves who were legally made free, last week, in the British protectorate of Sierra Leone, West Africa...