Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Extracting palm kernels, picking kola nuts, pressing out palm oil and tending ginger plants are still the toilsome daily occupations of some 200,000 slaves who were legally made free, last week, in the British protectorate of Sierra Leone, West Africa...
...week danced through Harlem, shouting, in purple clothes and fine fettle (see p. 29), other Negroes held a less riotous convention elsewhere in Harlem. These were the members of the fourth Pan-African Congress, who had gathered from the U. S., the West Indies, Germany, Japan, India, South America, Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Liberia, South Africa, to discuss racial needs. Speeches were made, newspapers commented, resolutions were accepted and published. Speeches. Said Dr. Wilhelm Mensching of Petzen, Germany: "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Said M. Dantes Bellegarde...
...sailing date of the Harvard detachment has been shifted from June 18, as originally announced, to June 25, when the group including the University representatives will leave New York on the S. S. "Sierra Vantana". Landing in France, the tourists will open their three months itinerary, with special attention to such university centers as Paris, Lyons and Brussels. Arrangements have been made by students of the European institutions to provide for the entertainment of the American visitors. Beside the customary sightseeing rounds, which are to be supervised by the students, a comprehensive program of social events will be arranged...
...Cradle Song. This play, translated from the Spanish of Gregorio and Ma ie Martinez Sierra by John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young...
...article, reprinted in part from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin and written by Professor J. E. Wolf '79, Professor of Petrology and Mineralogy Emeritus, describes an interesting visit which he recently made in the company of T. R. Gaines of Pasadena to the vicinity of Mt. Whitney, one of the Sierra Nevada range...