Word: witwatersrand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South African evidence is the fossilized skull of a six-year-old beast. Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, found the skull five years ago at Taungs, Bechuanaland, near the west border of the Transvaal. He calls it Australopithecus (Southern...
...Richard P. Strong of Harvard, with Smithsonian assistants, is to cross Africa from Liberia to Mombasa studying diseases of men, plants, animals. (The University of Witwatersrand, Transvaal, lately sent far and wide through Africa for specimens of herbs, roots, flowers, barks, saps used by ebon witchdoctors in their religious rites, to discover new medicinal agents...
...afternoon, capped and gowned, he opened the University of Witwatersrand, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1922 by his cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught, the then Governor General. Students yelled their lungs raw and the Vice Chancellor, Sir Robert Kotze, invested him with the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws...
...example of Transvaal Platinum, Ltd. has been contagious, and other prospectors have also found the precious metal in adjoining districts of the Witwatersrand, although in many cases not in paying quantities. Enough has been done to indicate that a very large section of the Central Transvaal may be potentially platinum-bearing...