Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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At this moment-any moment-a man, woman or child is almost certainly being torn to pieces and gulped down by one or more wild animals in Asia. Accurate statistics are available only for India. Last week a bored clerk at the Colonial Office released the news that wild animals...
6. The Colonial Office pointed with pride to the decrease in human deaths due to wild animals from 3,605 in 1923, to 2,587 in 1924 and to only 1,974 last year. Curiously enough the only species of animal to take a greater toll of human life this...
Oliver Goldsmith sorrowing over the Deserted Village was brought to mind last week when the 8,000 folk of Ware, Massachusetts mill town, looked despairingly at one another. The cause: most of them work in the textile mills of Otis Co., making cotton suitings, awnings, denims, knit goods, stockings and...
The Marblehead manuscripts provide a background of atmosphere ror the trade of the 19th century. Several documents relate incidents connected with the embargo of 1808 and others describe the magnitude of the carrying trade of the clipper era. The value of the collection will increase as interest in the post...
To have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as grotesque novelties of penny arcades, honkytonks. And he classed the cinema...