Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indians are sedentary and submissive, Britons kinetic and therefore dominant. Significant, last week, was an illustration of this contrast afforded when His Majesty's Viceroy of India, Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin, set out from Delhi to take what he described as "a short rest and vacation...
...Delhi (Delaware County), N. Y., one Vern Whitaker, pitcher of the Delhi Academy baseball team, annoyed because a wobbling fielder let in a run in the first inning, struck out 23 men in succession...
Imperial Airways, the only organization in Britain operating regular air routes, is to be subsidized by the Government until 1939, when it is expected to pay for itself. Delhi, it was learned last week, is to be pushed as a new Indian terminus. Thus is success rewarded, for last year Imperial Airways carried 52,000 passengers 2,500,000 miles without accident to a single passenger...
...suite of efficiently equipped business offices at New Delhi, the capital of British India, was occupied for the first time last week by the Seven Wise Britons who had come from London to report on the possibility of granting greater self-government to India (TIME...
...Delhi. From Bombay, whither sped the Seven Wise Men, plunging 700 miles into the interior, on a special, troop-guarded train? Naturally their objective was New Delhi, the superb Viceregal Capital of British India, on which some $150,000,000 has already been spent, so that the more important of its sumptuous white stone buildings already tower and glisten in the Indian...