Word: ba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charley Whiteside, admiral of Harvard's eight-oared fleet, bundled himself a little more warmly in his heavy ba-ba coat, and turned to scan with a practised eye the husky and long-legged young gentlemen in the Varsity shell who were pumping down the Charles at a 24-beat-to-the-minute gait, trailing a long white streamer as they went...
...first day by breakfasting with the Oklahoma churchmen who had made arrangements for their visit. Then followed a crowded mass meeting at First Presbyterian Church. Later the Team deployed to speak in separate churches. Finally another mass meeting in Oklahoma City College auditorium where students presented a missionary play, Ba Thane...
...addition to being extremely deleterious to Cuba, this temporizing policy is of no benefit to this country; its only virtue is that it does not commit the State Department to anything and lets it straddle the real issue of whether C'ba is to be allowed to govern itself or is to be an American dependency. Inasmuch as its only effect is to prolong the misery of the Cuban people, it should be abandoned immediately and for it substituted a clear and forceful policy...
Rebuffed by Dr. Maw, the Governor turned to two other Burmese leaders, U. Ba Pe and U Chit Hia, but both declined the role of puppet premier. In London the British Government saved its face temporarily by ignoring the question of Burma, urging the Conference to talk about India, particularly about the renowned inability of India's Hindus. Moslems and Sikhs to agree upon a system for their "communal representation" in the future Indian Parliament under the future Indian Constitution...
Only Item of Progress: Mr. U Ba Pe, representing Burma, announced himself in perfect harmony with the Simon Commission's recommendation that Burma be divorced from the rest of India, constituted a separate crown colony or dominion (TIME, June 30). There,being no objection, the Conference officially approved the separation of Burma "in principle." Said Mr. U Ba Pe with emphasis: "We Burmese want to get away from India as soon as possible...