Word: africa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since there is a better view of Mars this time from the Earth's southern hemisphere than from the northern, Dr. Slipher was last week posted at Harvard's observatory near Bloemfontein in South Africa. He discovered that Solis Lacus, a dark spot on Mars as big as the U. S. and located near the Martian south pole, had assumed a shape never before seen, or at least not in the last half-century. This change of shape, reasoned Old Marster Slipher, could be plausibly ascribed to the growth of fresh vegetation...
...came the Ethiopian War and with it came Galeazzo Ciano's chance to become a hero. He went to Italian East Africa to fly. There he organized the most publicized nights in the East African campaign. His instructors rated him as a very mediocre pilot but he started the war by dropping the first bombs over Aduwa. His plane was the first to be hit by an enemy bullet. He was the first Italian flier to land in Addis Ababa at the war's end. For all this Galeazzo was promoted to the rank of major...
Today slim, bald, horn-tufted with white wool like an Uncle Tom in business clothes, he has one son who is an African Methodist Episcopal bishop in Capetown, South Africa, another who is a physician, a daughter who is a St. Louis high-school teacher. His third son is a cashier in his father's bank, and another of his five daughters is a teller...
European storks migrate to Africa for the winter and many come back year after year to the same nests in northern Europe. How they or any other migratory birds find their way across untracked stretches of land and water, naturalists do not know. One guess is that they are sensitive to the earth's magnetic field, use it for guidance as an airplane pilot uses a radio beam...
...Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Raymond Dart of the University of the Witwatersrand made a startling report: From the jungle where he had been reared by baboons, white policemen rescued a 12-year-old Negro. The boy could at first make only baboonlike noises. When he learned Afrikaans, he told goggle-eyed Professor Dart': "My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey. . . . While with the baboons I walked on all fours and slept in the bush entirely naked...