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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does, like Mother, Know Best. But in this instance it seems to the writer, the voice of the masses should at least make itself felt in protest. This, in other words, is a call to arms. When, fifty years from now, the "Memorial Chapel" stands with the still un-burnt Memorial Hall as a monument to uselessness, it should be known, that the present college generation, at least, was in opposition. I suggest a student committee to organize a vigorous protest as soon as possible and to cooperate with such alumni as also wish to raise their voices in opposition...
Thus Britons, Princes and Untouchables will be dealing as a unit with what? Other Indians, primarily inhabitants of so-called "British India," are represented at the Conference by a delegation which, although including some burnt-out firebrands, such as a survivor of the "AH Brothers" faction, is composed of "Indian Liberals" and ''Indian Moderates...
Fire-though beaten at last-did not exactly lose the fight. Poor though Wapping was, appraisers figured the property loss at "not less than one million pounds" ($4,860,000). Two thousand wretched Wappingites were burnt out of the tenements and hovels they called home...
Most industries in such a situation would form an association, hire a good publicity man, set things right. But the lightning-rod-makers, while they published sales booklets filled with startling pictures of lightning and burnt houses, did not have to do this. In 1915 the National Board of Fire Underwriters set standards for equipment and ever since has urged the use of lightning-rods...
Neither ark nor dove of peace landed on the Ararats (Big Mount Ararat & Little Mount Ararat) last week but bombs, thousands of them, raising thunder and mushroom clouds of dust. Round the Ararats' feet was the smoke of 200 burnt and blackened villages...