Word: globe
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Brazil is the land of staggering vastitudes. Here grow more trees than in any other country in the world, and most of them are valuable hardwoods. Through illimitable forests flows the stupendous Amazon, largest and second longest river*on the Globe. The 20 United States of Brazil comprise an area greater than that of the 48 United States of North America. Here dwell nearly half the population of South America. To complete the breathtaking catalogue of records, Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking country in South America and the largest Portuguese-speaking country in the world...
Died. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, 81, able Manhattan journalist (Tribune, Evening Post, Globe, 1870-1905), Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Commission (1905-14), Roosevelt biographer; suddenly; in Manhattan...
...David F. Egan of the Boston Globe yesterday evening consigned to the immortality of print the thesis which, some what diluted by the exigencies of space, appears below...
While shocked or gleeful Britons were pondering these surely memorable words, good Squire Baldwin made further philosophic utterance, last week, at the 150th anniversary services in "The Little Church on City Road," famed London nucleus of some 106,000 Methodist churches which now dot the Globe...
Speaking internationally, Lord Melchett predicted that the Globe would eventually be organized into three vast economic units, "probably the United States, the United Economic States of Europe and the British Empire." Observers wondered whether Prophet Melchett had overlooked Latin America and Asia, or whether he dares to imagine that they will merge into one of his "three units...