Word: fitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...negative fears. "By the joint statesmanship of Britain and India," said the Viceroy, "there is about to be initiated in this country an experiment in representative self-government which for breadth of conception and boldness of design is without parallel in history. . . . The British people and Parliament have seen fit to offer to India a Constitution which by its liberal principles stands in impressive contrast to those political tendencies which are evident over wide areas of the world. . . . These changes connote a profound modification of British policy towards India as a member of the Commonwealth. . . . They involve nothing less than...
...cannot say, for example, how cabinets will be formed." Nevertheless they will be formed, under the guidance of the Marquess of Linlithgow, and the new Cabinet Ministers will be Indians with greater powers than they have ever had before, subject to the intervention and control if he sees fit of the Viceroy of India. Large though the new electorate is, another way of looking at the matter is that only 14% of the people of British India have the vote.* The entire country is so politically preadolescent that to be moving in India toward heeding the voice of the people...
...declare: "The people love liberty . . . but they put ham and cabbage first, If they can't get them under democracy, they will trans fer their affections and their spiritual val ues to other systems. The blunt fact is that our democracy must cleanse itself . . . if it is to fit itself to be an efficient instrument of social control." That, as it turned out, was just what practical President Eddy proposed...
When the friends of Governor Landon devote a large share of their time and energy to an attempt to prove the "red Sympathies" of President Roosevelt, that tacitly admit that they have no issue in the present campaign and no platform fit to be discussed in front of the American electorate...
...running around, some of them know where they're going, most of them got lost, but out of the general situation in emerging what in expected to be a fair to better cross country team. The boys have been trying out new courses in Brookline which are expected to fit them for these demned hills in New Haven. Jaakko Mikkola, who is trying to form the team with some of his best men on pro or concentrating on fall track, himself admitted that he got tired just walking over the course...