Word: agra
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...Jumna River at Agra, India, abounds with cholera germs. Some three miles below Agra the river is almost clear of them...
...India the natives, naïvely do sometimes hold That savage elephants are sobered, (so at least I have been told) By a camel's bitter biting of their thin ears flapping fold. Once from Agra and from Oudh, all the people came to feast And to stand in glamorous gazing at grandees from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish...
...called this satire "In Memoriam." The title explains itself as we read how la Comtesse du Porc-Mouton presented one day to M. le President du College des Antiquites etudes Etudes Classiques a memorial library "to be fashioned after the Mausoleum at Helikarnassus or the Taj Mahat at Agra." Mr. Moise graphically explains the history of certain types of architecture...
...last week from an extensive trip to China where he has been investigating the missions and schools of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He left Cambridge last January and proceeded by way of the Suez Canal to India, where he spent four weeks. Here he visited Agra, Delhi, and Benares, as well as the principal cities of the coast. At Calcutta Professor Moore had an opportunity to observe the work of E. C. Carter '00, who is at the head of the Harvard Mission in India and who is travelling secretary for India of the International...