Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complexity and diversity of the industry. The white collar workers are growing more and more divorced from the technical aspects of airplane design and construction. The industry has reached the point in its development where the founders, once contemptuously called dreamers, have had to hire accountants and all the tribe of regular and orderly minds to keep tabs on their sprouting colossus...
...check his theory, Dr. Jeffreys studied names which ancient African tribes gave to corn. He found that many of them called it by the name of the tribe to the north or the northeast of them. So he concludes that American corn was not brought to coastal Africa by the Spanish or Portuguese but that it came overland from the north, probably introduced by earlier Arab navigators...
...Witwatersrand professor, Dr. M.D.W. Jeffreys, has been working on a more recent problem of African history: Did Africans make contact with the Western Hemisphere before the time of Columbus? Dr. Jeffreys thinks that they did, and he bases his theory on pottery made about 900 A.D. by the Yoruba tribe of West Africa. Some of it appears to have been decorated by rolling a corncob over wet clay. Since corn almost certainly originated in the Americas, this suggests that Africans, or Arabs sailing from Africa, crossed to the New j World 500 years before Columbus and brought Indian corn back...
...orange thieves touched off the Nguru violence, but deeper, older antagonisms lie behind it. The Nguru tribe moved into Nyasaland some 40 years ago to escape the repressive ways of Portuguese colonizers in neighboring Mozambique. The British, newcomers themselves, gave the tribesmen squatters' rights, but insisted that in return they pay "rent" by working a fixed number of hours each week on the white men's plantations. Last year, without warning, the colonial government increased the work quota...
...Cashibo Indians, who live along the Aguaytia River. There the linguists had a lucky start. Near the village of Pucallpa, they found a Cashibo named Gregorio Estrella, who had lived on the coast and learned Spanish. Recalls one of Townsend's team: "Gregorio led us to his tribe. They were so pleased when they found we wanted to live just the way they did that they built a house for us." As a starter, the linguists began asking the names of everyday things: banana, fire, water, house, etc. It was tough going. They found that the only difference between...