Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goes for 100 rupees ($30), a radio for 30. Parker "51" fountain pens, which used to sell for 60 rupees, now go for 5. "There is no economic exchange between Pakistan and India. India may survive this schism; Pakistan cannot. Almost its whole middle class, which was Hindu, has fled. The literacy rate, never higher than 9%, is now less than half that. Pakistan's Government is not able to support more refugees. It is trying to shut off the flood. Moslems who hear that Pakistan will not let them enter are embittered and terrified...
...lecture tour 16 years later, when the chance came for another African "rescue." Emin Pasha, the German-born Governor of the Equatorial province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
Fine Feathers. The expedition had a Gilbert & Sullivan air about it, as Author Manning tells it. Emin Pasha, the object of the hunt, was an eccentric German doctor whose real name was Eduard Schnitzer. Though he had fled to the almost inaccessible interior of Equatorial Africa, he was afraid somebody would try to "rescue...
Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, yesterday recovered patent rights to his electron microscope invention seized by the Allen Property Custodian when he fled to this country from Nazi persecution...
Triumphant Life. Planck himself had triumphs, too. He became rector of the University of Berlin, and won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics. But when the Nazis came into power, German scientists with Jewish blood (including Einstein) were hounded out of the country. Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When...