Word: globe
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...limitations. The morphologist considers his earlier work more important; the geologist, that his reputation rests chiefly on his extensive investigations of coral reefs; the zoologist remembers his vast collection of marine life, gathered in a dozen extended voyages widely scattered over the surface of the globe, and to still others, he appears as one of the greatest benefactors of the oldest university in America; while those who delve among ancient civilizations and primitive races might well be surprised at the extent of his poaching in their preserves." The author was assisted in compiling this splendid work by Professor Barrett Wendell...
...that age of new geography and England's adventures taking practical possession of the globe, Shakespeare added something to her domain; he found the Forest of Arden, The Witch-haunted Scottish Heath, The Magic Isle of Prospero, and together with these in the Midsummer Night's Dream, he enters what was the most marvellous realm of its kind, the Fairy World. Large 8vo. Cloth. Decorative cover. Constable, Ltd., London. Published at $3.75. Special price...
...responsibility in the greatest of the world's oceans. America's destiny, too, is largely wrapped up in the Pacific and in the Orient. She has her foothold in Hawali, Samoa and the Philippines. She can not lay down her white man's burden in this quarter of the globe without leaving chaos behind and without inviting the occupation of these lands by perhaps another power. These Pacific possessions are the outer defense of the American western coast line and the transmission points of her western civilizing influence in the East. She is working out great problems in her treatment...
Jimmy Hussey's Revue "Tattle-Tales"--which had been playing at the Globe Theatre up to but recently, seems to have had a sudden termination. Rumor has it that the cause was mismanagement, and that it was necessary to resort to popular subscription among the members of the "Follies" to bring the company back to New York...
...Globe.--"Tattle Tales." Evenings at 8.10. Matinees Wednesday and Saturday...