Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large as soup plates, each edged with stretched lip, will hang down from the beautified face, almost prevent speech, and render eating extremely difficult. Complete the beautification by filing the teeth to sharp points and hanging a ring in the nose. Then, in the French Colony of Senegal, West Africa, the woman so adorned may expect to command an excellent price from a wife-seeker...
Elephants, Lions. Having been captured by savages at Mallicolo in the New Hebrides and rescued by a British warship, having made friends with elephants and lions in Eastern and Central Africa, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson arrived in Manhattan a fortnight ago with 200,000 feet of film and 7,000 still pictures for the American Museum of Natural History. Headquarters for their three-and-a-half-year's animal observations were on the shores of a lake on the Abyssinian border, which they named Lake Paradise...
...wide geographical distribution of the holders of the Doctor's degree is also noteworthy. Nearly every state in the Union and province of Canada is represented, as well as a dozen countries of Europe, Mexico, Uruguay, Chile, Hawaii, the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, Egypt, South Africa, India, China, and New Zealand. Through such a wide distribution of its Doctors Harvard University exercises a powerful influence over methods of instruction and research and the training of these men is surely one of the most important services performed by the University...
...does every year, the American Bible Society last week announced how many copies of Holy Scripture it had printed and distributed in the previous year. Counting translations, such as the edition in Luba Lulua (destined for 2,000,000 black tribesmen in Africa) the year's grand total was some nine million copies?an increase of 600,000 over 1925. The Society implied this made the Bible by far the most influential book printed in the U. S. The 600,000 increase alone dwarfs the 1925 sale of any so-called "bestseller" of fiction, technical instruction, free verse or whatever...
...Mary Jobe Akeley returned to Manhattan from Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...