Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mainland since 1898. Long-range guns made Venice's isolation valueless as a defense. But it was still a pretty sentiment. In 1931 Benito Mussolini briskly ordered work on the road begun and that night St. Mark's Square in Venice blazed with Venetian lanterns and bengal lights. Opened last week, the road is 57 mi. long, 2½ mi. of it a bridge over the lagoon proper, strung on arches sunk in the mud. It runs beside the railway viaduct and between the two is a concrete groove reserved for bicyclists. At the city end is Europe...
...BENGAL MUTINY-George Danger-field-Har-court, Brace ($2). Brief, graphic resume of the Indian Mutiny, guaranteed to make British flesh creep...
Swords and arrows are the weapons of the Santals, simple hill folk in upper Bengal. Last week one of their chiefs suddenly decided that he was St. Gandhi. Shouting, "I am the Mahatma! I am Gandhi himself!" he led his tribe to Malda where they seized a local mosque...
Mymensing (Bengal) India...
...Greenland Wai encountered no serious trouble until crossing the Bay of Bengal. About 150 mi. off Rangoon a water pump broke. Down came the plane upon a tossing sea. An S O S brought a British steamer which towed her into Rangoon. As casually as before, the plane flew on to Colombo, Bombay, Bagdad. Athens, Rome, across the Alps in a storm to Friedrichshafen...