Word: customs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shorn of their royal power, and by the end of this month, when India will officially realign its states, their last royal vestiges, excepting their personal wealth, will disappear. Last week, as the day approached, royal princes by the score journeyed into the palmed city of Mysore in custom-built Cadillacs, svelte Jaguars and private trains for a final royal fling. The occasion was the final Dashahara durbar of the fat (300 Ibs.), rich, able, music-loving Maharaja of Mysore, who has ruled his state as rajpramukh since the coming of the republic...
...teaching that God is in every man. Mahatma Gandhi (whom Agnostic Nehru once called "terribly Hindu") showed India how practical and effective religion could be even in the field of politics. Nehru carried on Gandhi's social reforms, introducing laws that sheared away the encumbrances of caste and custom that held Hinduism mired in the past. Thus freed, modern Hinduism is experiencing a new flowering of philosophical thought under the leadership of Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan...
...autumn leaves First there is the matter of dryness. The pedigreed leaf is quite dry and usually somewhat curled around the edges. This curling is also a universal characteristic of beards, as is dryness. The two exceptions to the latter statement are those who follow the Old Teutonic custom of staining the beard with bits of food, and those too youthful to have the necessary manual dexterity. King Richard III was an example of this fully-haired baby, but his birth is the exception...
...things which most distinguishes the American university from its European counterpart is the prevailing custom of marriage in graduate school. Ever since World War II graduate schools have been teeming with married students. Whether this sociological change has resulted in a more stable and serene breed of student is unknown, but it has undoubtedly had something to do with a startling rise in the birth rate among the educated classes. Not to be surpassed by the Veteran's Villages of the state universities, Harvard has recently done its bit to foster the large cultivated family, and incidentally save America from...
...Three's 1957 models. They are lower (by four inches), higher priced (from $1 to $104), more powerful (an optional 245 h.p. V8. v. the top 1956 225 h.p. V-8). For the first time. Ford also has two body sizes and two wheel-bases. Customers will have the choice of the 116-in. wheelbase Custom, three inches longer than in '56, or the higher-priced 118-in. wheelbase Fairlane, fully five inches longer. Where Ford virtuously sold safety in 1956 and watched rival Chevrolet carry off the honors by 300,000 units, it will sell size...