Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves in the new land. In 1897, aged 28, young Mohandas Gandhi was stoned by Durban white settlers and came close to being hanged from a lamppost...
...game was close until the last inning, when Pennsylvania put over the two deciding runs, and had the Crimson been able to hit, it could easily have taken the lead and won. The Quakers even went to the trouble of giving the varsity four baserunners as a result of four errors, but the Crimson batters were unable to bring them home...
Playing at first singles, Captain Ned Weld routed Navy's Dave Houghton 6-2, 6-3, while Bob Bowditch crushed the Middies' number two man, Marv Osburn, 6-2, 6-2. In the only close contest of the day, Tim Gallwey in third position defeated Nick Temple...
...group announced several days ago that the company would close after Saturday night's performance of The Power and the Glory, but since that time their office has been "besieged with calls" asking the company to go on and "pledging support...
...years after his birth in 1927. As a scholarship student at Oxford he criticized and directed plays, edited a literary magazine, and served as secretary of the Oxford Union, "a sort of large-scale debating society." He had gone up to Oxford at the age of eighteen, at the close of World War II, a period when the University was largely dominated by returning veterans, many of them years older than he. "One had to in a sense work harder, because of the generation gap... And that I think was invaluable. One couldn't just get off a few flip...