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...bootieg and gunpowder that own these graces. Manifest is their transcendence over olden methods. The priest was but mutilated. The civilian was ended. Let this be a lesson to the amazon "Order of Our Lady of Tears" when next they dislike a prelate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LADIES, BE GOOD | 1/7/1926 | See Source »

...travelers had crossed the Sierra Pacaraima from Brazil into Venezuela to investigate the aboriginal legend that the Orinoco and the Amazon have a common source. They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards. (Hence Stevens' monkey meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dark America | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...long run, as in the case of the Brazilian coffee monopoly, the rubber syndicate will probably defeat itself by encouraging tremendous new production, especially in the Dutch East Indies and the Para and Upper Amazon portions of Brazil. But it takes several years to bring rubber trees to bearing age, and meanwhile the British rubber growers will "sit pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Liberian Rubber | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

...Harvard Wireless Club announces that it is now in communication with the scientific expedition of Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice '01, now in the wilds of the Amazon jungle in South America. According to a message to the CRIMSON, the club states that it will be glad to forward any messages from members of the University to Dr. Rice or to any members of his party, among whom are several Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIRELESS CLUB REACHES RICE IN AMAZON JUNGLE | 2/21/1925 | See Source »

...volume, the Danube is the most important river in Europe, although it is 675 miles shorter than the Volga. It is the 23rd longest river in the world. Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Feb. 2, 1925 | 2/2/1925 | See Source »

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