Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Primed for a slow, even stroke over the Denley distance University sweep-swingers meet two completely over-hauled boats, but neither is expected to challenge seriously Harvard's supremacy on the waves. Rutgers has already bowed before the Bengal oarsmen and M. I. T. has met but ineffective competition thus...
...class, refuse social invitations from the British governors. Because of these restrictions, a great sensation was caused recently when Saint Gandhi was found to have partaken of two bananas, an orange, three walnuts and a cup of boiled milk at the house of Sir John Anderson, then governor of Bengal. The tempest of excitement this raised among Congressmen, only too eager to get on eating and dickering terms with their British masters, was stilled by Saint Gandhi in his own way. He announced that he no longer pays his Congress dues, is no longer a Congressman, thus can sip boiled...
With the return of Johnny Vruink to the Bengal lineup after an absence of two months due to an appendicitis operation, the Tiger Quint has suddenly surged out of a slump, that sunk them to the circuit cellar to trip the league leading Indians 47-38 and then rout Penn...
...rifles had been returned at latest dispatches, and Christians were blowing up still more Moslem homes in reprisal for the burning of the airport. The Mohammedan world, familiar with the methods of a Christian whom they called "The Strongman of Bengal" when he was police commissioner of Calcutta, was incensed to learn that Strongman Sir Charles Augustus Tegart is being sent to Palestine. Next they learned that in Daharieh the Christians, not satisfied with dynamiting houses in reprisal for the capture of a few rifles, had levied a collective fine of $10,000 on the whole village. Since the Moslem...
...announced his determination to return to the U. S., henceforth to devote himself to the American scene. His switch was prompted by a spur-of-the-moment decision to see India first; captivated, he made three subsequent visits, most of them as guest of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar, Bengal ruler whose kingdom supplied much of the local color for The Rams Came. Bromfield still says he intends to settle in the U. S. some day, meantime commutes between Senlis, Switzerland (where he has three children, all girls, at school) and Manhattan. Hard on luggage, he is relatively easy...