Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days when the Portuguese were world's greatest sailors, one of their questing ships picked up four handsome Negresses on the Guinea Coast. According to contemporary chronicles (says Author Baptist) the women were to be dressed up "and left ashore at different points of the African coast as emissaries of trade and, presumably, of Christian missionary enterprise: women, it was reasonably argued, being less likely than men to be slain by savage tribes." From this historical thread Author Baptist has spun a highly colored yarn...
...months ago a flyer named Trist, onetime Royal Australian Air Force pilot, was lost in the bush near Zenang, New Guinea, while flying in the service of New Guinea Airways. A searching party of 50 natives and a white man beat their way into the region but were forced back by hostile tribesmen. Last week two natives emerged from the bush with the story that Trist's airplane had crashed, that the pilot had struggled on foot to the nearest village, that the villagers had butchered him, eaten him at a feast...
...navigation room of the great Dornier flying boat DO-X finally justified its presence last week when the ship roared across the South Atlantic and landed prettily at Natal, Brazil. It was seven months after she had set out from Lake Constance. Switzerland. The flight from Bolama, Portuguese Guinea, West Africa, whither the boat bestirred itself a month ago. was made in three jumps: a short one to the Cape Verde Islands where it remained nearly a week; a long and creditable one (1,400 mi.) to Fernando Noronha Island, 200 mi. off the Brazilian mainland: and an easy...
...year-old Adolph Roome (TIME, April 6). Last fortnight Judge Roth assured large Adolph's mother that her onetime husband, Dr. Adolph Edward Roome Jr. would not be allowed to "experiment'' on Adolph with pituitary extract. Said the Judge then: "The boy is not a guinea pig.'' But last week, Dr. Roome having shown that pituitary extract treatments are now well understood and having pleaded again that he simply wanted to save his son from being a physical monstrosity, Judge Roth decided for the father. Large Adolph must submit to Dr. Roome's ministration...
Judge: The boy is not a guinea pig, and he will not be subjected to experiments by any doctor...