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...brown-skinned form soaring high in the air, a good 12 in. over a bar which the photographer swore, upon his honor as a missionary, had been set at 6 ft. 6 in. The jumper was a Watusi or member of the highest caste in the African kingdom of Ruanda, a caste in which all the members are between six and seven feet tall. Had the Watusi shown been competing in a recognized track meet, he would have smashed by many an inch the present "world's record" of 6 ft. 8 5/16 in. (held by Harold M. Osborn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Watusi | 1/18/1926 | See Source »

...only nations which have sent no immigrants are a few of the minor ones with quotas of 100; a roster of nowheres: Afghanistan, British Cameroon, Nepal, New Guinea, Ruanda and Urundi, Tanganyika, Yap, to which number should probably be added the countries on which no report has been made at all: Andorra, Ethiopia, Liberia, Muscat, Nauru, Siam, the Togolands (British and French). Practically within this group are countries which have sent less than five immigrants : Arabian Peninsula, French Cameroon, Japan,* Monaco, Samoa, Southwest Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: How it Works | 6/29/1925 | See Source »

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