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Word: rhodesia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Professor Graton will visit mines in all of these regions the Shaler award, is specifically for the study of copper deposits in the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR GRATON AWARDED ADDITIONAL RESEARCH SUM | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

...Tanganyika, held as a Mandate from the League of Nations; Uganda, a protectorate ; and the Crown Colonies, Kenya and Northern Rhodesia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In East Africa | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

...Civilized countries where women do not have the right to vote: Belgium, Spain, Italy, Jugoslavia, Japan Women's suffrage exists in only 28 states: Eng land, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, British East Africa, Rhodesia, Jamaica, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Holland, Rumania, Serbia, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Hungary, the United States, Poland, Esthonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Civilized | 9/20/1926 | See Source »

...three sons of the late famed publisher of the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer; to Mrs. Gladys Munn Amory, of Washington, D. C. Since serving as an aviator in the World War, he has traveled through Russia as foreign correspondent for the World; hunted antelope in Northern Rhodesia; idled at Palm Beach, Paris. She, in 1913, married Charles Minot Amory, Boston social arbiter, graduate of Grpton, Harvard; she divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...Colin Orr perished beneath a tumbling chimney. The town of Padang, Sumatra, collapsed in one thundering crash. Cairo reported over 4,000 houses in ruins. In Crete, the worst damage was demolition of archaeological treasures, especially at the Museum of Candia. Germany felt several shocks; also France, Italy, Southern Rhodesia and the seismograph at Georgetown University (Washington, D. C.). Studying their charts of the globe's temblor areas, scientists had no explanation for the simultaneous shuddering of such widely separated portions of the terrestrial crust, save that earthquakes are all due, ultimately, to redistribution of surface soils by rainfall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Summer Portents | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

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