Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louw opens his legation in Washington, he will find his duties commercial, not political. There are no diplomatic issues now pending between the U. S. A. and the U. S. A. Nor will he have to learn his job, for he knows U. S. business well, was onetime South African Trade Commissioner in the U. S. South African trade with the U. S. has doubled since 1923. Last year the Dominion purchased $55,000,000 worth of goods from the U. S. (automobiles, machinery, farm implements, clothing). The U. S. imported $8,000,000 worth of South African commodities (wool...
Most modernly civilized part of Africa is the area of British dominion. South Africa. Native whites call themselves Afrikanders. Their language is Afrikaans, a modification of Dutch. They have a South African Association for the Advancement of Science. That Association last week began a fortnight's entertain-ment of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Capetown, Johannesburg, Pretoria. If the British Association met in the Dominion of Canada, Canadian and U. S. newspapers would tersely refer to it as the B.A.A.S.. or "British Ass." South African papers last week avoided abbreviation, for a great part...
Pride of South African scientists is their possession of fair proof that man originated in Africa, not in Asia as Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn believes and as Manhattan's Roy Chapman Andrews has sought to prove by expeditions...
...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...
Other points brought up at the South African meeting included...