Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orient to recoup, spotted a chance in Korea where rich ore deposits were being crushed by hand, got concessions, sent for U. S. machinery. First to grow cotton in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, he unfolded one evening at the White House dinner table a glowing description of African big-game hunting which resulted in Theodore Roosevelt's famed expedition...
...readers might not guess it, is a serious League-of-Nations woman; her interest in Africa, based on her work for the League and a six-months' visit in 1926, is more than academic. After her return from Africa to England she made a point of meeting every African visitor she could, says: "At one time our house seemed to be an enquiry bureau to which students from the Gold Coast, Nigeria or Tanganyika came uninvited for help with examination papers in constitutional law. or advice as to where to buy winter woollens." Daughter of a Yorkshire farmer, Authoress...
...part of the regular research and course work of the University, Harvard is maintaining hundreds of animals ranging in specie from African bullfrogs and alligators to gila monsters and South American racoons...
...principally interested in small insects and the lowest forms of life. It is estimated that there are over two billion one-celled animals of various types kept by the department in glass jars and long cement tubes. There are, however, 50 large mussels, 75 ordinary frogs and 3 African bullfrogs, 300 minnows, 500 glow flies, 2 crayfish 30 leaches, 5000 tadpoles, 125 lizards of different kinds, about 100,000 worms of several varieties, some 300 tropical fish 350 mice and 15 rats included in the collection...
...wrote, while custodian of enemy property, he had found a pile of packing cases in a German warehouse in the East African lake town of Bukoba. One "was slightly packed with sawdust and had a smaller case inside. This also was very well made and strongly fastened. When I opened this the contents proved to be a native's skull. Whether this was the skull of Mkwawa I cannot say, but very great care had been taken in packing it." He concluded that he did not know what became of the skull, because he left it where...