Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...large majority of these mildews which are so destructive to food plants come from the Orient," Professor Weston went on, "and after I left the Philippines I was to go and study them in Formosa, India, Java, and China. I however, came to the United States, and after studying in various localities. I came here to Harvard...
Reception in Java...
...countries are cooperating, and the latest addition to the list is the news that the Governor General of the Dutch East Indies has cabled His Excellency, Mr. A. C. D. deGraeff, Netherlands Minister in Washington, that he will make all necessary preparations for the reception of the party in Java, and that he has designated Mr. A. T. Keen, Director of the Prince Hendrik School of Batavia, to join the vessel at Manila so that students will have the benefit of his lectures and personality for about one week before arriving at Java. Mr. Keen was educated in England...
...Pacific, the tanker Java Arrow picked up 14 men from the helpless and drifting Japanese steamer Taishin Maru No. 3; flashed the message ashore: "Men uneat last 20 days, no water last five. Caught rats, made soup. Later caught no more rats; crew...
...only by human organisms that have not been out of the primeval ooze long enough to lose their religious adoration of the sun's life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans...