Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
...sewing machines of 3,000 different types each year in its nine factories.? Its 10,000 stores and 60,000 salesmen cover the world to sell the machines turned out by its 28,000 factory hands. Its symbolic red S is familiar in Germany, South Africa, China. While its officers labor in Manhattan's once tallest Singer Building, its woodsmen chop down millions of board feet of lumber in its Canadian and southern U. S. forests...
...more imaginative man might have killed himself. A more unscrupulous man might have sailed for South America or Africa. A more logical man might have surrendered to the nearest representative of the law. But Charles Delos Waggoner, quixotic President of the Bank of Telluride, Col. adopted none of these courses. Having fraudulently obtained some $500,000 from six Manhattan banks to save his Telluride bank (TIME, Sept. 16), Mr. Waggoner was last week apprehended in a Wyoming tourist camp. He was traveling in his own car and under his own name, although he had adopted the subterfuge of shaving...
...once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925) reported his observations on ape intelligence. Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell reluctantly (for fear of meddlesome publicity) told the psychologists. That purpose is no less than to establish an anthropoid farm in Florida, where Professor Yerkes will spend most of his time comparing simian and human emotional and mental...
...Unique only for the U. S. is the Yerkes plan. At Tenerife I., Canary Islands, the German Dr. Wolfgang Kohler conducted similar researches until the War disturbed him. At Kindia, Africa, the Pasteur Institute is directing very discreet efforts to cross apes and humans (TIME, April...