Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Carl Ethan Akeley, 62, sculptor, hunter, taxidermist, engineer. It found him where he had often been before, in the heart of Africa. Weakened by fever and a nervous breakdown some months ago, he died last week of hemorrhage attendant upon pneumonia at Kabele on Mt. Mikeno, Uganda, Belgian Congo...
...through the report there runs one unvarying and disquieting note. The erection of a solar radiation station was made possible only by the gift of $55,000 from the National Geographic Society. An expedition to East Africa was financed by a private individual. Fifty thousand dollars was gathered by subscription to purchase a valuable insect collection. The private means of the Institute permitted the publication of only eight short papers in the Smithsonian series. The National Art Gallery is squeezed into a part of the museum wholly inadequate to permit of growth and occupying space needed for specimens. The United...
...story of Monet's rise--to fame is one of constant striving for an ideal in the lace of all handicaps. As a soldier in Africa for the first part of his life, and then for many years when he struggled to sell his paintings as best he could he was face to face with that great problem of many an artist, the problem of the empty pocket...
...Curle, a close reined of Conrad, has travelled extensively in South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Near East, Burma, the Malay States, and in other parts of the world...
...Publisher Lester D. Gardner of Aviation (weekly), he had come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then...