Word: burma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rome (from, Croyden). . . . . .900 Victoria Point, Burma...
...Rangoon, Burma...
...Barbour has had a long and varied connection with the University Museum, is a member of many foreign zoological societies, and has made explorations in the East and West Indies, Burma, India, China and Japan, in the interests of zoology...
Having already experimented in the Philippines, Burma, Mexico, Mr. Ford despatched Professor Carl Larue of the University of Michigan to investigate last year in Brazil. Professor Larue reported favorably. Then Mr. Ford asked for and received a concession of between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 acres in Para, in the Amazon Valley, a black jungle along the Tapajos River, that crawls all the way from the River of Doubt to the Xingu River. Soon boa constrictors will slip down into the jungle centres; monkeys will set up a great chattering. Black Indians armed with heavy blades will slash...
Missions. There was long debate as to whether or not U. S. Baptists should continue mission work outside the U. S. Young women dressed like the natives they had worked and prayed for in China, Japan, Burma, India, Africa, etc., moved among mission exhibits...