Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago, Capt. Barnett W. Harris of the Zoological Society and Field Museum, exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...
Professor McDougall is the author of several books of psychology, some of which are "Physiological Psychology", "Social Psychology", "Body and Mind", and "Group Minds." After extensive travels in Borneo, during which he made a detailed study of the native and their customs, he published a volume entitled "Pagan Tribes of Borneo". The last of his works which have been published are "Is America Safe for Democracy" and "Ethics and some Modern World Problems...
...Communists." Ever since Com- munism became the bugaboo of Occidentals, Netherlandic despatches from Java, Sumatra and Borneo have described all insurgent natives as "Communists." The insurgents' chief avowed grievance is, however, that as Mohammedans they refuse to be governed by Christians. They are "Nationalists" and "anti-Christians" rather than "Communists" in the political sense...
...arise to jest with his life; but if one stands in its shadow by the light of the full moon, he will hear the secrets of the future. All of which ties a string around six short stories, wherein English folk drink gin pahits and have emotional disturbances in Borneo and the Malay Peninsula...
...Osborn and Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews at the American Museum of Natural History (Manhattan), and running a terrific, far-flung menu of elephant, loggerhead turtle, capybara (large South American rodent), howling-monkey, armadillo, iguana (lizard), Orinoco crocodile, diamond-back rattlesnake, stewed octopus, argus pheasant and muntjac ("barking-deer") in Borneo, sambar and gaur (deer) and manis (scaly anteater) in India...