Word: bechuanaland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 1924 a blast was fired in a limestone quarry near Taungs in Bechuanaland, South Africa. In the material that tumbled to the foot of the cliff were fossil fragments from a cave which the blast had exposed. The manager gathered the fossil-bearing chunks together, handed them to a Johannesburg geologist named Young who was stopping by on business. Dr. Young took them to Dr. Raymond Arthur Dart, professor of anatomy at the University of Johannesburg. Laboriously scraping away the rocky mineral, Professor Dart uncovered a small, fragmentary skull with the face almost intact. The scientist quickly realized that...
Lord Allenby brought his military reputation through the War with less damage than most of his peers. Born of an untitled Yorkshire family, he entered the Army after flunking Indian Civil Service examinations. Having proved himself a cool, competent bush fighter in Bechuanaland, Zululand and the Boer War, he was a major general in command of all British cavalry by 1914. Flanders was no place for horsemen. His career was nearly wrecked by the slaughter of his cavalry at the battle of Arras in 1917. Two months later he was sent to see what he could do about the situation...
...long way to Northern Rhodesia, any way you go. South Africa bumps northward from the Cape, in a succession of plateaus separated by rivers, until it drops into the Congo basin. Beyond Cape Town, beyond the veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope...
...British naval sloop Milford, Vice Admiral Edward Radcliffe Garth Russell Evans commanding, hove to in the bleak South Atlantic one day last week to ride out a 70 m.p.h. storm. Brave Admiral Evans could not have found a lonelier spot. Full 2,000 mi. northeast lay Bechuanaland where last September he did his duty as a Briton and an officer in banishing a South African chief who had punished a white man (TIME, Sept. 25 et seq.). Four thousand miles farther on was Britain. Three thousand miles to the south was the South Pole where he had been...
Last week Admiral Evans was back in Bechuanaland. Thousands of grinning black tribesmen gibbered and cheered as he received Chief Tshekedi. Under the same withered figtree where the sentence of suspension had been read, the Admiral cleared his throat...