Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Striking a bold, fresh note in Conference plans, the French Premier proposed world co-operation in "international public works," gave as examples "the exploiting of South America's wealth, the establishing of trans-African railways and vast public works in Central Europe and the Near East. These projects . . . should be simultaneously begun by all the great nations...
When Bishop Barnes opens a missionary exhibition with African settings (see cut) his mind is likely to be on the evidences of primitive mankind in Africa. As a scientific man of God, he is shrewd, erudite, pragmatical. The impact of science on the views of Bishop Barnes has lately produced a thick book, compilation of the Gifford Lectures he delivered at the University of Aberdeen in 1927-29.* Bishop Barnes recalls that at one point in the 19th Century, science seemed about ready to crowd out religion. But science is not yet free of error or boundless in scope. Bishop...
When the Greeks, during their African campaign discovered the two gigantic statues erected on the left bank of the Nile at Thebes, and dedicated to Amenophis III. they named the one further to the East Memnon after a hero of Greek mythology by the same name...
...animals are part of a memorial gate to the late Paul James Rainey, famed big game hunter. Cleveland coal & coke scion (TIME, Oct. i, 1923). Rainey was the first to hunt African lions with dog packs, the first to make a wild animal cinema (1912). In 1925 the Rainey family offered the Bronx Zoo a huge (35 ft. high, 42 ft. wide) bronze double gate as a memorial to Paul, commissioned Manship to design...
Wclwitschia mirabilis, a curious turnip-like southwest African gymnosperm, has two strap-shaped leaves, i ft. wide or more, 10 ft. long before they begin to fray at the ends...