Word: peruvians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...territory in dispute between Chile and Peru for three generations. Since the Harding Administration the U. S. has sought to mediate, but the recent Chile-U.S.-Peruvian conference upon Tacna-Arica came to an abortive end ( TIME, March 16, 1925 to June...
Thus is the tenderfoot regaled in lightly populated sections of the continent, where roam the sidehill gouger, the minktum, tigermonk, high-behind,* lava bear, hoop snake, jointed snake, Peruvian whiffen-whoofen, banana fish, mile-or-more bird and other creatures of times and times ago The fauna of folklore is too elusive for collectors but sometimes an unidentifiable species strays into the newspapers. Two summers ago northern New Jersey was terrorized by a "devil" which sounded, from the skimpy descriptions brought in by terrified natives, like a carnivorous cousin of the cougar and the kangaroo. Last week...
...other celestial objects that never rise above the horizons of Northern countries. However, as cloudy weather handicapped the observation from Peru for a large part of each year, the high plateaus of South Africa were found to be better for continued work the year round. The instruments from the Peruvian station are now being prepared for moving by Dr. John Paraskevopoulos, who has been in charge for the last four years. These include a photographic telescope with a double lens 24 inches in diameter, one of the largest of its kind: another with a triple lens ten inches in diameter...
Besides having the largest telescope in the southern hemisphere, the new Harvard Station will probably be the most completely equipped southern observatory. However the same plans will be followed that have proved successful in the operation of the Peruvian station: the programs of research will be made in Cambridge, and the photographic plates taken will be shipped to Cambridge for study by the observatory staff, and for filing in the observatory's large collection...
...Secretary of State Was informed by the Peruvian Government last week that its answer was in the negative, to his proposal that the Tacna-Arica question be solved by ceding to Bolivia this territory, so long claimed by both Peru and Chile (TIME, Dec. 13 et ante...