Word: burma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...choice pages the huge province of Burma, nearly seven times the size of England, was detached from India alto gether and set up as a separate British realm. Its ruler was appointed last week by the Emperor, George VI, his choice for Governor of Burma lighting upon Sir Archibald Cochrane, Knight Commander of the Star of India, D. S. O. Also de tached from India and set up last week as a Crown Colony was small, highly strategic Aden, only 80 sq. mi. in area...
...Bowles and his wife have secured anthropometric data on five thousand individuals in the Indian foothill area. The particular purpose of this survey was to analyze racial origins and migrations along the significant borderland of India and Tibet, the investigation extending from the extreme northwest to Assam and Burma...
...Wilson to the Peace Conference, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control, is now research chief for International Business Machines Corp. This week the Federal Communications Commission permitted WIXAL to double its power from ten kilowatts to 20, enough to make it clearly audible in Burma...
Houston has returned to the United States, but Emmons and Loomis have planned a trip starting from Calcutta have taking them through northern Burma to the Yangize River. Carter has received permission to travel across Afghanistan into Russia...
When his bull elephant grows restless, begins to ooze oily liquid from the porous spot in its forehead, the mahout in the teakwood forests of Upper Burma chains his big beast of burden securely, leaves it strictly alone until the condition is past. This periodic frenzy, probably sexual, is called "must" (from the Hindu mast, meaning ruttish, intoxicated). Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote...