Word: africa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, stood Tracy Strong, general secretary of the World's Alliance of the Y. M. C. A. Cried he: "I now light this International Fire of Friendship." Mr. Strong touched his torch to the wood. As the fire sprang up, Y. M. C. A. boys from Asia, Europe, Africa, Australia, South America threw faggots on the Fire of Friendship...
Lear was a professional expatriate of the Robert Browning-Walter Savage Landor school. Most of his life was spent in Rome, Corfu, San Remo. His travels through Europe, Asia and Africa look like a map of the Barbarian Invasions. He saw Petra before Doughty, was nearly killed there by the Arabs, muddled through with superb British calm. Fanatics tried to assassinate the author of The Owl and the Pussy-Cat in India, in Turkey. At last Lear settled down in his San Remo villa with an Albanian servant and his cat Foss, "his daily companion for nearly 17 years." There...
...come to his aid. By staging anti-French demonstrations demanding Tunisia, Corsica arid a few other choice bits of French territory, Il Duce gave the Premier his big chance to regain his fast-dwindling popularity. The Premier answered the Italian campaign with a triumphal tour of Corsica and North Africa. Returning, he declared categorically that France would not cede one inch of her territory. The French people slapped their chests with satisfaction...
Died. Sir Frank Dyson, 71, who, as British Astronomer-Royal in charge of the Greenwich Observatory, was long (1910-33) official keeper of the world's time; on a ship bound for South Africa...
...time in one novel has carried his book to its 15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson, Henry Seidel Canby, Carl Van Doren, Vincent Sheean. But many of the delegates (German, Italian, Spanish) could claim...