Word: malays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mather on their recent tour visited the Near East, India, China, Japan, Java, the Malay States, and Hawaii...
...during almost every other major English sporting event this season, it rained last week during the British Amateur Golf Championship in Sandwich. The weather made antic the play of visiting golfers from the U. S., Canada, France, South Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand, Mesopotamia, the Malay States. Edward of Wales watched for a while, then amused himself 'by practicing some drives of his own, employing the methods taught him last month by British Open Champion Walter Hagen. Said he: "At last I have learned to play golf," but he did not enter the tournament...
...Jade God. When John Millicent stole a jade figurine out of a Hindoo temple, its baleful influence followed him to Sussex where, one evening, he was discovered lying across his desk, his throat slit. The figurine had disappeared as well as a Malay kriss which he used for a paper weight. Then Jack Derrick, who loved daughter Jean Millicent, set out to find the murderer of her father. During the process people peered through doors and curtains, a wall panel opened emitting smoke and a greenish glow, girls shrieked, the figurine shone and spoke in the darkness. Even the portrait...
...thing in particular was hoped for -to obtain pictures of the corona from two points where the eclipse would take place at times a half-hour apart. On this account stations were located, not only in Sumatra and the nearby Malay Peninsula where the eclipse had nearly its maximum duration, but also in the Philippines where the duration was considerably less. As it happened, the shorter duration in the Philippines was more than offset by better weather. In Sumatra there was clear weather for the necessary half-hour, but some of the expeditions on the Malay Peninsula failed entirely. There...
...England, France, Germany and Holland made observations, took photographs. Among the U. S. observers were: Swarthmore's Dr. John Anthony Miller (famed among astronomers for luck-this was his seventh eclipse and all have been clear), in Sumatra; Harvard's Prof. Harlan True Stetson, in the Malay Peninsula; Commander Chester H. J. Keppler of the U. S. Naval Observatory, at Iloilo in the Philippines. Each had a train of assistants...