Word: veldts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he quit teaching geology at Canada's McGill University in 1933, John Thorburn Williamson has been a lone wolf. He went to Africa, and for seven years despite jeers at his "crazy" search, grubbed his way around the veldt in search of diamonds. But when he found them, the jeers stopped-especially those from the diamond cartel run by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, head of the famed De Beers syndicate. Oppenheimer & friends-were scared. Williamson had discovered one of the world's richest mines and could easily crack the cartel wide open. He turned down offers from...
...operates from the central observatory on Summer House Hill on Concord Avenue. It also has a subsidiary station at Agassia (Dormerly Oak Ridge station) in Massachusetts two high altitude sites in Colorado, three stations in New Mexico, and at the Boyden station on Harvard Kopje on the high veldt of interior South Africa...
Rita Hayworth called it quits in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa, sent word to husband Aly Khan, out shooting big game in the veldt, that she was taking off for the Riviera to see her children and rest in more civilized comfort...
Harvard Hymn, by John Knowles Paine '69; Glorious Aplie, by Webbe (written for the first glee club, London, 1790); Tenebrae Factac Sunt, by Ingegneri, Bacchanal, by Cocchi, from Apollonian Harmony; Marching to Pretoria (South African Veldt song), arranged by Ruth E. Abbot; Magdlein lm Waide, by Dvorak (Czech Folk Song, Op. 43, No. 3, 1877); Gaudemus, College Medley, arranged for the Glee Club by William F. Russell...