Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...circus played our town one day; Three bengal tigers got away. The manager looked straight at me; Said he: "Your opportunity! "Somebody's got to get them cats, "Somebody's got to go. . . ." - Bert Williams...
...Despite the presence of extra police and two regiments which have been guarding Chittagong in Bengal since the attacks on Britons there last year, a white sahib's dance at Chittagong was broken up last week by Bengali who threw bombs, killed a white woman and two policemen, wounded six whites...
Indian Ulsters. British officials like to call the complex states of Bengal and Punjab the Ulsters of India. There the pugnacious Moslems are in actual majority, but most of the money, most of the educated classes, nearly all of the newspapers, are Hindu. In the Punjab, whence come the bearded fighting Sikhs of the Indian army and police force, the Moslem peasants are hopelessly in debt to crafty Hindu moneylenders. The MacDonald commission has solved the problem of the Indian Ulsters to its own satisfaction by not giving the Moslems a statutory majority in either province but protecting their rights...
...tycoon, threatened to go to court unless he removed his private zoo from its present site, just within the stone wall at the public roadside, to a remote part of his estate. Mr. Candler began collecting animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight bears of assorted colors, monkeys, chimpanzees, Japanese red-faced...
...labored to find a calculus as Leibnitz and Newton had found one to solve mathematical problems. Led by his environmental interpretation of evolution to college and town planning, he designed the Hebrew University building in Jerusalem, reconstructed the slums of Edinburgh, laid out Rabindranath Tagore's university in Bengal. Correlator of the arts and sciences, he wrote Evolution of Sex, Biology, Life. His ablest U. S. disciple is Critic Lewis Mumford...