Word: boers
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...published it under his own name. Marais shot himself in 1936. Shortly after, his complete study of white ants, i.e., termites, and a slim, chatty book of reminiscences about baboons were published in Europe. Marais had studied baboons in the Transvaal for three years just after the Boer War, when the absence of farmers with guns made the beasts approachable. He began, but never completed, a serious text based on his scientific observations of them. Now that text has been rediscovered...
...Covering the Boer War in 1900, Winston Churchill reported the death of a Major Childe: "Old and gray as he was, the call to arms had drawn him from home, and wife, and comfort as it is drawing many of all ages and fortunes now. And so he was killed in his first fight against the Boers. He had a queer presentiment of impending fate, for he had spoken a good deal to us of the chances of death, and had even selected his own epitaph, so that on the little wooden cross which stands at the foot of Bastion...
...British playwright and novelist R. F. Delderfield. It is long enough (half a million words) to last a careful reader from now till the Fourth of July, and it is so transparently simple that neither its ideas nor ambiguities will startle anyone. Since it runs a course from the Boer War to Dunkirk and sticks to a small rural valley and about 100 characters, it may well be the swan-song novel of England's squirearchy...
Meanwhile, Leavitt was replaced in Conant 233 by Peter Boer. Boer, it was reported, was another Dow recruiter working in shifts with Leavitt. When no interviewees showed up to see Boer at 233, the demonstrators decided he was a decoy and sent scouts to find Leavitt. They found him at 11 a.m. conducting an interview in the building next to Conant--Mallinckrodt M-102. In seconds, the whole demonstration moved to that door and Leavitt was trapped inside for the rest...
...verve to this job that he devoted to his exemplary biography of his father, the book might have proved readable. As for young Winston, 27, he ought to recall that at his age, his grandfather already was a war correspondent who roused the Empire with his dispatches from the Boer War. "Don't you know that I put more than brandy into my speeches?" Winny once growled to Randolph. He also put more than padding into his books...