Word: darke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piercing cries of the population groping in the dark added the element of agony to the scene. Great fissures appeared in the fields, discharging water, sand and silt...
...Dark clouded the Yellow Sea. Long swaying fingers pointed skyward-masts. Aboard the Japanese flagship Mikasa the captains of the fleet faced their admiral across a lacquer tray containing the instruments used in committing harakiri...
...Helser has been doing pioneer missionary work at a new station in the interior of Africa, a thousand miles from the coast. His experience as a traveler, explorer, and missionary in the Dark Continent has been extensive. He is the author of a book on travel entitled "In Sunny Nigeria" that stamps him as an expert on African customs...
...Helser is a graduate of Manchester College, Indiana, and holds degrees from both Columbia and the University of London. He has recently returned from the World Conference on Africa, held at Le Zaute, Belgium, where representatives from every country interested in the Dark Continent attended. Men who would like to arrange individual conferences with Mr. Helser, may do so by leaving word at the Phillips Brooks House before 12.30 o'clock today...
...wife is Aunt Martha, whose capable hands are so smoothly white that her little nephew sees how they make the rest of her seem dark; he thinks she lights the candles with her fingertips...