Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Word of a rich fish came last week from Cape Town. The fish is the source of an extract 800 times richer in vitamin A than the best cod-liver oil. The 60-lb. fish, commonly called the "bloubiskop" by South African fishermen, is the bafaro (Polyprion americanus). A thimbleful of its liver oil has enough vitamin A to supply a whole family for eight months...
...withdrew to the Khersonese Cape, fought on. When their ammunition ran out, they swam out into the Black Sea, were not seen again. In the famed Khersonese lighthouse, the light died: the 245-day siege was over. It was July...
Twenty thousand Germans retreated to the Khersonese Cape, fought bitterly. One night last week, the light in the Khersonese lighthouse went out. The siege was over...
...Empire. Most menacing to Jan Smuts's sleep are Winston Churchill's dinners. Britain's Prime Minister likes to talk on & on, until 2 or 3 a.m., sipping the South African brandy which his good right hand, Jan Smuts, thoughtfully brought along from the Cape...
...pale and weedy Cambridge student then: a Boer-accented colonial, fresh from the schools of the Cape Colony, a grave and talented adolescent with a passion for reciting Prometheus Unbound, an enthusiasm for the Empire-building of Cecil Rhodes. From Cambridge he went back to the South Africa of diamond fields and booming gold mines, of growing friction between British and Boers, who had trekked northward from the Cape to the Transvaal to free their rude, patriarchal, Bible-reading lives of uitlander (foreign) rule...