Word: cochineal
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...Moulmein Pagoda. A steady drone of power changed suddenly to a stutter of uncertainty, then stopped. Joseph Marie Le Brix and M. Rossi on a flight from Paris to Saigon, Cochin-China, last week, scrambled to undo safety belts, climbed over their cockpit's edge and stepped, parachutes unfolding, into the black darkness over the mountains near Moulmein, Burma. The old Moulmein pagoda heard the shriek of wind against wires as the Frenchmen's plane roared to the ground with no one in control. The plane was demolished, mail was lost, Rossi fractured his pelvic bone, the hopes...
Persons traveling to Siam, Cochin-China, China, and Iraq must still beware cholera; along West Africa yellow fever; in backward Europe typhus; everywhere smallpox...
...know one other grief. Two years ago, here in Paris, Boris, my husband, died in the Cochin Hospital of exhaustion and privation. But my two children and I are well. And I have work...
...week's political sensation was a proposal by Deputy Outrey that France cede Cochin-China to the U. S. as payment in full for the Franco-U. S. debt...
...Afro-European one as exactly as the pieces of a picture puzzle. From this interesting phenomenon, he deduced the theory that they had indeed so fitted at one time. Therefore he concluded that the continents were originally one piece of land, and attached Australia to the west coast of Cochin-China to make the picture complete...