Word: ceylonization
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Last week the forgotten might of malaria made itself heard. Since early December reports have come from Ceylon that malaria was decimating the 5,000,000 inhabitants of that tea-growing island off the southern tip of India. Last week's dispatches mentioned 250,000 cases, 3,000 deaths in a single district. In some villages nine out of ten people have been stricken. What the British administrators who govern Ceylon as a Crown Colony mostly fear is that the Ceylon epidemic may spread to the Indian mainland and rouse a plague like that of 1908 when...
...laboratories. They have carried their ionization chambers to mountain peaks, installed them on round-the-world ships, sunk them to the bottom of deep lakes, taken them down in mines, flown them in airplanes, sent them up in balloons manned and unmanned. All over the world, from Panama to Ceylon, from the Equator to within 350 miles of the North Magnetic Pole, they have carried a cosmic quest which has cost at least two lives. It has been found that cosmic rays are either particles of matter or units of radiation, or both, with energies of billions of electron volts...
Though Frieda and Lawrence quarreled they never separated for long. She shared his nomad existence 18 years, in Europe, Ceylon, Australia, the U. S., was with him in his last days on the Riviera. "I enjoyed being poor and I didn't want to play a role in the world." The thing she missed most was her children, whom she saw only secretly, at bitterly long intervals. The Lawrences quarreled not only with each other but with most of their friends. Their friendship with Katherine Mansfield and Middleton Murry "was the only spontaneous and jolly" one they...
That Delphic tip by the devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...
...homo sapiens than any other fossil apes ever discovered.* One genus they named Ramapithecns in honor of Rama, stalwart, uxorious hero of the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Another they christened Sitgriva-pitkeens, after Sugriva, king of the monkeys who helped Rama get his wife back from the demon-king of Ceylon. The third they named Bramapithecus for the Hindu God Brahma...