Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chaulmoogra seeds, from which the oil is extracted, are a product of a tree which grows freely in Burma, Bengal and Assam. The oil with a little caustic soda added, yields sodium chaulmoograte, and free chaulmoogric acid is obtained by the addition of hydrochloric acid. If a little alcohol is poured into this chaulmoogric acid ethyl chaulmoograte is obtained, that is, ethyl estermiscible with blood...
...Swaraj leader, who was asked by Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal to form a ministry (TIME, Dec. 24), declined that invitation. His reasons were that the people of India cannot offer willing cooperation until the present system of government is changed. He thought it 'dishonorable to accept office and then carry on the Swaraj policy of noncooperation...
...elections of the Provincial Legislative Councils and the Indian or Central Legislative Assembly, which have been sweeping the whole Indian peninsula for the past month, the Swaraj won a notable victory in the Province of Bengal. In other parts of the country "the efforts of the extremists have not been very successful...
...success of the Swaraj in Bengal caused the resignation of the Legislative Council of the Bengal Government. Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal, invited C. R. Das to form a ministry...
...treated cases of the disease have risen 200% in one province since 1913, though this is probably largely due to better diagnosis and popular enlightenment, and it is estimated that there are 2,500,000 cases in Bengal alone. The symptoms are: remittent fever, emaciation, roughening of, the hair and especially enlargement of the spleen and liver. There are several disturbances of the blood and the endocrine system...