Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will wear my habitual dress of loin cloth, shawl and sandals. If the King prescribes European dress I will be obliged to decline the royal invitation. It must be remembered I am a humble servant of India's impoverished millions and must dress as they dress-nothing more and nothing less. As a matter of fact the King's invitation is unconditional...
...nozzle at the rear. On contact with the atmosphere, the liquid is changed to a cloudlike vapor. Under "unusual" atmospheric conditions, it is said, the tetrachloride joins with moisture in the air to form hydroscopic smoke particles containing hydrochloric acid which may damage leather or rubber compositions, bright dyes, cloth fabric other than wool. Chemical warfare experts of the Army stated that soldiers habitually handle Ti CL 4 without injury to hands or uniforms...
...foul play where he knew he could not win by fair, persisted. Don was too honest even to suspect such a trick, and was an easy victim. It was suggested on many sides that the Trophy should be exhibited in the Yacht Club this year, covered with a black cloth. Kaye Don proved himself a thorough sportsman when he refused to defend himself or to accuse or criticize Wood. He has made a most unusual impression by his personality and by his handling of a very difficult situation on the Detroit public, and a campaign is on foot to present...
...third-class smoking compartment, Non-Smoker Gandhi let it be known that if the powerful industrialists of Lancashire and other depressed British textile areas will bring pressure upon the British Government to grant India her independence, he, Gandhi, will move to end India's present "boycott" of British cloth and goods. Mr. Gandhi proposed more. Without mentioning Japan or the U.S., he let it be known that he favors a reciprocal Anglo-Indian agreement under which India's surplus needs (over and above what she can produce herself) would be supplied exclusively by Britain-this agreement...
...three hours, near dusk, a radio officer at the airport hears that the Akron is about to return. The lounging ground crew springs into action. A large cloth panel with the figures "63" is spread on the ground, tells Commander Rosen dahl the ground temperature. Another panel, striped, is spread several hundred feet "upwind" from the mooring mast and marked by two lantern-swinging grounds men. A smoke candle is lighted to show the direction of the ground wind. Presently there is a drone of engines from the east, then the wink of two white bow lights, two green starboard...