Word: niger
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...North African empire carved and welded for her by Marshal Lyautey. Africa was a central theme at the meeting last week of the French Association for the Advancement of Science. Alfred Lacroix, the Association's president, described the part scientists must play in developing Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea. The Association voted to hold its 1927 meeting in Constantine, Algeria. Dr. Serge Voronoff, famed gland man, reported the latest progress of his gland-grafting experiments upon 3,000 Algerian sheep (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924). An extra sex gland grafted in young rams so increased their weight and hair...
...pure African descent. The blood of the white or yellow race does not flow in my veins. I am a Negro, a word derived appropriately from the Latin niger, meaning black, and used by the ancient Romans to indicate my ancestors who lived south of the Sahara Desert. . . . I, a veteran of the War against the Germans, am visiting America in the interest of commercial affairs. I have been north and south, closely and privately observing with an open mind. I believe that I can see the points of view of both races, and appreciate the inevitable conditions that exist...
Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt...
...important river in Europe, although it is 675 miles shorter than the Volga. It is the 23rd longest river in the world. Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...
...more correctly speaking, two magazines, each boasting the same highly cacophonous and widely copyrighted title. Wednesday's red polemic entitled "The Harvard Magazine" is being followed this morning by a collegiate Collier's of the identical title. The original offering with its motto "Luceat ad Nauseam" surmounted by three niger apes, rampant, proves to be an exceedingly clever parody on the true Magazine which appears in a cover of virgin purity and purports to be "everyone's" (including Radcliffe's) paper...