Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other regions although having quotas of 100 each, send no immigrants to the U. S.: French Cameroon, Ethiopia, Muscat, Nepal, Tanganyika, British Togoland, French Togoland, Nauru, New Guinea...
...Venerable Robert Henry Charles, 71, Archdeacon of Westminster, erudite translator of the Ethiopia Book of Jubilees: "To find one's pleasure in a sport which consists of torturing and killing a defenseless animal bespeaks at best a thoughtless person whose outlook on life is immeasurably lower than that of the wolf or the tiger...
...instance, in TIME, Aug. 9, p. 6, Carmi Thompson journeyed, and on p. 14 Ethiopia is "ringed about." Such a map would have helped me with both these articles. I wonder if others of your readers do not feel the same about it? W. A. WOOD...
Ringed about by British, French and Italian dominated territories, the quadruple Empire of Abyssinia or Ethiopia, comprising the Kingdoms of Tigre, Amhara, Gojam and Shoa, survives as the one potent aboriginal state in all Africa. There human slavery still flourishes. There the most trifling jubilation provides an excuse for tearing out the entrails of a living cow, that they may be gorged raw by old and young, washed down with brimming cups of mese (mead) or bousa (beer). A yard- wide French-operated railway climbs from French Jibuti on the Gulf of Aden 500 miles inland to Addis Ababa...
...upon their "palaces." The Prince Regent has but to mutter a command and the groveling object of royal displeasure is led away to have his hands chopped off, his wrists dipped in boiling oil, his back flayed by a U. S. barbed wire lash. Everywhere the timeless usages of Ethiopia are interwoven stressfully with Occidental permeations. But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through...