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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...
...floor; an opening in the righthand corner of the end wall on the receiving side called the "grille"; an opening in the end wall on the service side, under the penthouse, called the "dedans." Players face each other on opposite sides of the net. Balls of tightly wound cloth; small pear-headed racquets...
...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...
Amoskeag, located in Manchester, N. H., is the world's largest maker of cotton cloth, operating 20,000 looms. When the present period of irregularity descended on the textile industry, Amoskeag reflected it with declined earnings climaxing in a deficit and no dividend in 1928. During this time Textiler Dumaine sifted and shifted the Amoskeag personnel, insisted upon basing production on unfilled orders. Last week, while most textile companies gloomily faced an even sharper depression, Amoskeag startled everyone by declaring a dividend of $1 per share and a 5% of salary bonus to its 10,000 employes...