Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official tickets of admission to the area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...
TRADER HORN, Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn: taken down and edited by Ethelreda Lewis. Foreword by John Galsworthy. The Literary Guild of America, New York. This is a volume of memories of a trader's life in central Africa, reeking with atmosphere. The main figure of the story is a real figure; and the subordinate characters are also real. To avoid publicity of offense surnames have been changed...
...award of $2,000 to L. C. Graton, Professor of Mining Geology, from the Shaler Memorial Fund to aid his research work in the mines of Africa next year was announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...
Although Professor Graton will visit mines in all of these regions the Shaler award, is specifically for the study of copper deposits in the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...
Raymond v. Tilden. "Lean Bill's" first real test came when he met Louis Raymond, youthful champion of South Africa. Someone "spread a report" that Raymond had a sore foot, that the referee had agreed to postpone the match, but that Tilden had refused. So the crowd cheered loudly when Raymond slashed to victory in the first set and threatened again in the third. Tilden was criticizing the linesmen's decisions, barking brusque commands at the ball boys, playing magnificent tennis. Tilden won three sets & match...