Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lord Linlithgow's own estates had prepared him to occupy the Viceroy's staggering marble "lodge"-which has six miles of corridors-with casual ease. His innate conservatism was softened by sociability and humor-his London town house once bore the deeply felt legend in brass "This Is Not the Russian Embassy" (which was next door). The Viceroy was at first greatly admired in New Delhi for his hard work, conciliatory attitude, patient fact finding, agricultural knowledge. When the Congress party's provincial ministers balked at taking office under the 1935 Act, because of the extraordinary powers...
...dint of some ingenious rewriting, and considerable skating on thin ice, Hollywood has produced a version of Kings Row which retains that novel's main outlines without arousing the censors. This is no mean feat, since the book bore down on sadism, incest and assorted abnormalities so heavily that its liberal admixture of seduction seemed a welcome note of normalcy. Although the grislier aspects have been glossed over prettily in deference to the family trade, the picture is still moderately worth-while entertainment...
...although there would be no deduction from current wages, 75% of all wage increases would go into the fund, to be paid when the certificates are cashed after the war. Mr. Ferguson disclaimed knowledge of J. M. Keynes's wage-deferment plan in England, to which his project bore a striking resemblance...
...faster when they explain the principles of physics underlying correct body positions for shooting a rifle. At the end of a 15-hour course, taught by English Professor Norman F. Maclean, onetime forest ranger, four out of five of the Institute's marksmanship students qualify as small-bore "expert riflemen...
...year pact which King of Kings Haile Selassie signed with the Brit ish Government bore little resemblance to Magna Charta. In return for $10,000,000 in cash, the Lion of Judah handed . the British a blank check. According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons...