Word: continentals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maybe Mr. Fagan ignores this was the first white settlement in the New World: that the first university and the first church in this continent were established in the Dominion Republic. He may also ignore that Columbus' remains are kept in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo.
Last week Pastor Hoas hastened down to Trelleborg, Swedish terminal of the Baltic ferry to the continent, to welcome the returning exiles. With him was Prince Karl, ready to make a speech.
...core of Gondwanaland went British scientists last week and met with Afrikanders. Gondwanaland is the hypothetical continent which ages and ages ago included South America, Africa and India. India drifted eastward. South America westward, leaving a continental core which civilized man only recently has gone to colonize and study...
"I have returned gentlemen, from the blackest spot on the continent of America. In that prison colony just sufficient food is served to keep the men strong enough to work tinder the tropical sun."
The extension of his project would seem fantastic in one less able. It is no less than to throw his lines entirely around South America, splicing them near the continent's bottom by a lacet between Buenos Aires. Then his Caribbean knot will be a handle to the bucket that...