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Word: africa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposals to the Minister of Health. But this is only the beginning. I intend to draft a complete new 'Reform Bill for Casuals.' " Asked why he had taken to the open road, he said: "It is in the blood. My great aunt and uncle were missionaries in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planned Vagrancy | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...veteran of almost three years overseas-serving with the field artillery in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. I saw American boys killed by weapons invented by these same Nazis we are now catering to. I read of all the civilians killed by these fiendish weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...South Africa asked for annexation of South West Africa, which she now holds under a League of Nations mandate. The Assembly found itself "unable to accede" to the request, politely asked South Africa to seek a trusteeship under the new arrangements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Other Business | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...first protocol, Germany's slice of empire was declared to lie "in South and Central Africa," Italy's "in North and Northeast Africa," Japan's "in East Asia to the South of her present empire," and Russia's "to the South of the territory of the Soviet Republics in the direction of the Indian Ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHANCELLERIES: Big Four (1940) | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...these winds. The Navy's meteorologists will study Antarctica's storms, using everything from sounding balloons to radar. They will take the temperature at all depths of the cold Antarctic seas, clock the powerful currents that surge northward to affect the climate of South America, Australia and Africa. The data they collect should help stay-at-home weathermen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mysteries of Antarctica | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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