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...business than is now in sight, and it will be many years before its capacity in any direction will be overtaxed. In the meantime increases of traffic, by permitting a wider distribution of overhead expenses, result in greater economy of operation. . . . Americans who feel an intelligent interest in this outpost of our civilization may rest assured that all is well at Panama." Governor Morrow's brother, Dwight W. Morrow, partner of J. P. Morgan, arrived in Panama a fortnight ago for a visit...
...heart of the Sahara Buchanan suffered internal injuries owing to a fall. Carried 50 miles to a French outpost by natives, he was cured by a doctor in Algiers through the medium of wireless...
...great outstanding feature of the history of Ethiopia was that the Ethiopian cultural unit stood as an outpost of Egyptian civilization in Middle Africa," writes Professor Reisner. He shows that Ethiopia had become thoroughly Egyptianized while it was under the sway of Egypt, and the Egyptian influence, though gradually diminishing, remained dominant for hundreds of years. During the Meroitic kingdom,--the period when Meroe was the capital,--Professor Reisner finds that several times Egyptian influences on Ethiopian culture were reintroduced and the Egyptian arts and crafts were revived, possibly through the importation of Egyptian craftsmen. The Ethiopians, however, were...
Captain Hilton Howell Bailey, American soldier, author, and lecturer, gave an illustrated address on Poland: "The Outpost of Civilization" last night at the Harvard Club of Boston...
James Keating, special envoy from Czecho-Slovakia to the United States will speak this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. His subject will be "Czecho-Slovakia: the European Outpost Against Bolshevism...