Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...necessarily be exceptionally intimate. One of many bright prospects seen for the trip was that of Dr. Thwing in the rôle of traveling companion, expounding Theology?he is an ordained minister ?to his followers after a visit to the grave of Confucius or a devil-service in Borneo; or Pedagogy?that is his specialty?after inspecting Punjab University at Lahore or a Norwegian public school...
...chief concern of the Dutch Admiralty is the defense of the Dutch East Indies. The Netherlands owns a colonial empire east of Singapore that includes the huge islands of Java, Sumatra and portions of Borneo. The area of the empire is 733,642 square miles, the population 50,000,000 and in 1921 its total import and export trade amounted to roughly 2,500,000,000 guilders...
...BEACHCOMBER IN THE ORIENT-Harry L. Foster-Dodd, Mead ($3.00). The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books. The volume is illustrated...
...YORK: The International Flower Show opened on March 12 with exhibits not only from the United States, but South America, the Philippines, Borneo, Central America, the South Seas, and the East Indies...
Swords and daggers from Spain and Italy, Indian and Indo-Persian weapons and armor; primitive arms from Africa, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; powder horns, helmets and halberds; wheelock guns and Near Eastern swords; daggers and sabers; Venetian rapiers, make up a collection of arms and armor formed in Austria and now in the Anderson galleries. Some of it belonged to the Archduke Charles...