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Word: ruanda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Belgium, Australia and New Zealand promptly offered their mandates to UNO. Belgium would give her small, densely-settled, mid-African mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, where police see that every native (except the pygmies) keeps at least 1¼ acres under cultivation. Australia would turn over phosphate-rich Nauru, New Guinea and neighboring islands. New Zealand was ready to relinquish mountainous, copra-producing Western Samoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Shifting Sands | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

Calvert School today has some 300 day pupils. Its unique service goes to 3,000 shut-in or isolated children in all of the 48 states and such odd spots as Poona, Ruanda-Urundi, Juneau, Waialua, Horta, Haiti. It is constantly expanding: last week Calvert was taking on U.S. children who will study as a group in Nicaragua's torrid Managua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worldwide Calveri | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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