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...contains a day by day account of the first half of the Congo expedition, and the second is filled with hastily sketched maps and technical descriptions of the navigation of the river. Conrad has left no account of the last half of the journey which carried him to the darkest part of Africa and to his meeting with the "Kurtz" of the "Heart of Darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE CONRADIANA IN NEW WIDENER EXHIBIT | 2/19/1926 | See Source »

...miles a minute-moved across a 7,-000-mile belt of the earth sparsely inhabited by human organisms, and then only by human organisms that have not been out of the primeval ooze long enough to lose their religious adoration of the sun's life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shadow | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

...lights are the result of reports made to the Cambridge police by Officer George Kelly, who handles traffic at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Kirkland Street in front of Memorial Hall. Cambridge Street, which has always been one of the darkest of Cambridge highways at night, will now become one of the brightest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARC LAMPS INSTALLED TO LIGHT CAMBRIDGE STREET | 1/8/1926 | See Source »

...Haven., Conn., November 12, 1925. --The possibilities of the Yale University cross-country team winning the 'Big Three' run at Cambridge tomorrow afternoon are the darkest that they have been for years. In the two meets thus far, the Eli harriers have been defeated, Springfield Y. M. C. A. College winning by the score of 25 to 30 and Columbia University by a 23 to 32 margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VISITORS FEAR FAST UNIVERSITY RUNNERS | 11/13/1925 | See Source »

...Amundsen kept repeating over and over: 'When it's darkest there's always light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

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