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...awakening" had been delivered two days previously in the Chamber of Deputies by Colonial Minister Luigi Federzoni. "One of the most brilliant pages in the world's colonial history," cried he, "is inscribed with the story of how Italian troops have recently occupied in Tripolitania and Cyrenaica an additional area one third the size of Italy at a paltry cost of less than 57,000,000 lira...
...believed to have originated in Asia because Asia is the oldest continuously dry land in the world; because climate and topography were ideal there for the development of the dawnman; because the glacial ice ages of Europe missed this area. Westward and eastward from Gobi probably traveled those hairy primates whose descendants are now called Smith, Karpetsky, Hop Lee, Seraphino...
...work of the Rockefeller Foundation is concerned chiefly with public health. Last year, relief centers were established in the Mississippi flood area; Brazil was aided in a fight against yellow fever; hookworm was brought under control in 19 countries; the Peking Union Medical College was supported; $2,000,000 was given toward a new medical centre for the University of London; and the globe was dotted with Rockefeller health workers...
Five Harvard men are placed among the first ten in the ranking of the squash racquets players of the Metropolitan Area released Saturday by the Metropolitan Squash Racquets Association...
Other Catastrophies. In the long, narrow area of.disaster a cyclone swept the islands of Syra & Mitylene, in the Aegean Sea, unroofing hundreds of houses. A quake racked Adrianople, in Thrace. Finally a tidal wave rose from the Black Sea to inundate the Bulgarian port of Varna, which simultaneously quivered...