Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scattered throughout India are 562 native states, which range all the way from Hyderabad, with the area of England and Scotland together, a population of 14,436,148 and an annual revenue of about $30,000,000, down to an estate no bigger than an elephant stockade, with 32 souls and not enough annual income to buy silk for a single turban. But by & large, the states' incomes are fabulous. An astounding proportion goes to the native rulers. One rupee in every five of Kashmir's revenue goes to its maharaja (compared with approximately one pound...
Sulfapyridine, one of the 1,000 relatives of sulfanilamide, acts on all 32 types of pneumonia. First used in England last year by Pathologist Lionel Ernest Howard Whitby of London's Middlesex Hospital, the drug was given a seven-month workout by conservative experimenters in hospitals all over...
...century ago the press of England, if not its Government, was made of tougher stuff. The Times was not the Government organ it is now but a muckraking, anti-aristocratic, jingoistic sheet. In 1854 it helped to push the country into the Crimean War, then ribbed the Government for all its blunders and published such thorough accounts of British strategy that the Russians were tipped off on it in advance. The Foreign Minister, Lord Clarendon, complained...
...army is not only melting away but our national position is doing the same, that ill bird The Times wh. daily fouls its own nest contributes powerfully to the decline of England. . . . Things are bad enough Heaven knows in the Crimea but the glowing colors in wh. every detail is painted have excited the people of this country almost to madness & have led among other things to a ministerial crisis...
...Atrocious," gasped Queen Victoria of The Times. "Wicked," clucked the Prince Consort. "Insolent," sniffed Mr. Gladstone. Lord John Russell wrote to Lord Clarendon: ". . . If England is ever to be England again, this vile tyranny of The Times must...