Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely lent as they might be to a worthy charity; they are men in whose lives he has played a part: Hadley at whose Alma Mater he got his education, Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Joel whose uncle (Barney Barnato) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, Taft who offered him an embassy, Coolidge who today consults him on the coal situation...
Portuguese. Out of Lisbon harbor droned a big Portugese naval plane. The heart of old Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), who used to call international pilots' councils and who sent Gomez and Fernandez to feel their way down to and around the terrible tip of unknown Africa, would have swelled with pride to see Lieutenants Moreira and Neves-Terriera head out over the broad Atlantic for the Madeira Islands, some 800 miles away. . . . Nightfall did not find them in Funchal. Their plane had pitched to the sea, as if crippled, but it was not crippled?only...
...last two issues, TIME reported leading archeological and paleontological events in the Western Hemisphere and in northern Africa in recent months. Herewith the European and Asian fields are covered, the African completed...
...pits, mounds, quarries, buttes for vestiges of the creatures that roamed the earth before them. Bigger bands of men examining maps, bringing steam shovels, excavating whole dead civilizations. Millions of dollars spent in digging every year. . . . Following are significant efforts and exhumations of the past few months, chiefly in Africa...
...Mayan centres in lower Central America, particularly Guatemala. Like Dr. Gann, the Mason-Spinden expedition found some of the ancient shrines still in use by Indian hunters and chicle* workers, who mingle Catholic and Mayan rites in their worship. Next week TIME will catalog archeological findings in Europe, Asia, Africa...