Word: globe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Explorer Harry St. John Bridger Philby has described the greater part of Yemen as "the worst mapped region of the inhabited globe." Its mountainous valleys are perhaps the most fertile in southern Arabia. Its almost deserted seaport of Mocha has become a synonym for coffee the world around. Coffee is still grown on Yemen's mountains but what little is exported goes through the port of Hodeida...
...newspaper in the U. S. to install a Morse telegraph wire and a linotype machine. Other underwriters included the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Times, Washington Star, Washington Post, Philadelphia Bulletin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland News, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Globe Democrat, Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune, Denver Post, Atlanta Journal, Minneapolis Tribune, Des Moines Register and Tribune, Omaha World-Herald, Milwaukee Journal, Miami Daily News, Dayton News, Buffalo News, Buffalo Courier-Express, Syracuse Herald, Oklahoma City Oklahoman, Dallas News and the Dallas Times-Herald...
...interest. As if it were of the greatest indifference to him he stared at the ceiling, leaned his head back on his hands, finally appeared to go to sleep while Attorney Wilson declared that the Bishop had collected $65,300 for campaign purposes from Edwin C. Jameson, president of Globe & Rutgers Fire Insurance Co. (taken over last year by New York State's superintendent of insurance); that he and his secretary had reported Mr. Jameson's contribution to the Clerk of the House as only $17,300; that he had not only tried to conceal the amount...
...every corner of the globe much is being said about the menace of war, but little about means of averting such a catastrophe. Let the agreements which we have signed here today remind the world that there are governments which consider it their duty to work toward strengthening the peace structure. Chauvinism, nationalism and racial prejudice are foreign to the Soviet State, which does not put its ambition in conquests...
...until her death in 1908. a chagrined old crone of 74. She engineered three coups d'etat to do it. She put one nephew, aged five, on the throne and later took him off when, grown up and turned reformer, he bought a Bible and a globe. Another nephew she married to the daughter of her girlhood love, thus producing Pu Yi whom she made Emperor at two. She floated a foreign loan for naval construction and put it into a fantastic marble pleasure boat that grounded in her lily pond. She sent the fanatic Boxers (Righteous Harmony Fists...