Word: sao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sources of the Orinoco will be surveyed and mapped. The region is one of the hottest, as well as the most dangerous places on earth, infested by disease, insects, animals, savages. Mrs. Rice intends also to visit a school for Indian children at Sao Gabriel Mission, Brazil, which she established on previous trips. Under Spanish fathers, this school has metamorphosed the life of the community. The region is also a happy hunting-ground for ethnological studies. Curious native customs abound. Records of them and specimens of their culture will be collected for the Peabody Museum of Harvard. The cannibalistic tribes...
...Excellency Dr. Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S., was the guest of honor at a luncheon of the American Bible Society in Manhattan. The luncheon was given to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the translation of the Bible into Chinese by Robert Morrison. It was announced that 90,000,000 Bibles in the Chinese language have been issued...
...three hermetically sealed glass jars. He annually buys and sells thousands of snakes, and distributes the yellowish poison crystals free of charge to scientists throughout the world who are experimenting on antitoxins for snake bite. He supplied the great snake farm established by the Brazilian Government at Sao Paulo, Brazil...
Brazil. Prince Sigismund, son of Prince Henry of Prussia, after a three months'" stay in Brazil, decided to settle down in Sao Paulo, where he has been representing a Hamburg coffee firm. His wife, daughter of the deposed Prince of Saxe-Altenburg, left Hamburg to join...
...result of a 12 weeks' competition which finished Wednesday night, John Rodman Hooker '25 of Sao Mateo, California, was appointed second assistant hockey manager and John Gedney Cushman '25 of Montclair, New Jersey, was appointed second assistant manager of the second team. These appointments are subject to the approval of the Athletic Committee...