Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Stimson is just two years older than Mahatma Gandhi, 61, and far more robust. Yet if Mr. Stimson had taken off all except a loin cloth when he landed at Southampton (TIME, Jan. 20, et seq.) and had walked barefoot the 80 miles to London, seeking thus to impress the World with his holy resolve to make the Naval Conference a success, Englishmen would have thought...
Everyone vaguely understands that textiles are one of England's key industries, that India is this industry's key customer, and that if Mr. Gandhi could fire his countrymen with a sufficient resolve to buy not one snippet more of English cloth but to spin and weave their own, the result would be even more poverty-pinched faces in Lancashire than one sees there already (TIME...
Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract...
...record. The highest jump on record is one of better than 24,000 ft. At that height, the jumper had to have oxygen for breathing. The longest delayed jump was from a height of 11,000 ft. The experimenter pulled his rip cord at 2,000 ft. The cloth chute opened with a report that was heard for miles around. His body had been falling at 20 m. p. h., the maximum speed that a man's body attains in a free fall...
...Crusade was the first, the one Author Lamb tells about: "... a migration, and a journey, and war. All kinds of people joined the marchers, lords and vagabonds, weapon men and peasants, proud ladies and tavern drabs. ... On the shoulders of their jackets they wore a cross, sewn out of cloth, and because of this they were called the cruciati, or cross-bearers." The Turks called them Franks, because most of them, especially in the First Crusade, were French...