Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture on "Borobudur, the Temple of Innumerable Buddahs in Java" will be given under the auspices of the Fogg Art. Museum by Dr. Ernst Diex. The talk which will take place at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, will be given in the lecture Room of the Old Fogg Museum, and if will be illustrated...
...Chicago, Capt. Barnett W. Harris of the Zoological Society and Field Museum, exhibited as part of his equipment for a collecting trip in Borneo and Java, some rifle cartridges, invented by himself, to shoot animals unconscious instead of dead. The bullets contained a chemical which, upon entering an animal's blood stream, would anesthetize. It would presumably be easier to avoid than to hit the animal's vital spots. Collector Harris proposed to put gorillas and orang-outangs to sleep at long range, bring them home alive...
...trader or explorer. Furthermore the native's absolute disregard of social status based on property ownership and his perfect satisfaction with his lot makes him impossible as a laborer. In this respect the native of New Guinea furnishes a strong contrast to his industrious neighbor on the Island of Java...
Statesmen Coolidge, Baldwin, Poincaré, Stresemann, even Mussolini, have invoked with respect to Mexico, Nicaragua, India, China, Tibet, Java and most of the earth's troubled lands, fear of all the spectre stands for. Asia is troubled by it, vaguely wondering if in loyalty to this presence perhaps lies union, strength and conquest...
...Whether the question at issue is the miners' strike in England, or an attack by the American Navy against the independent Republic of Nicaragua, or the shooting of people in Java and Sumatra, there is always made by the statesmen of Great Britain, or the United States, or the Netherlands, the same justification, the 'plots and intrigues' of the Bolshevist Government...