Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writes Dr. Sunderland: "Seemingly Kipling's association in India with the English must have been almost exclusively with the military men and with the most imperialistic and domineering of the civil officials. As to India itself, the real India, the great India of the past and the present, with its history and its civilization, he seems to have cared nothing for this, and to have taken no pains to inform himself about it. As to the Indian people, he seems never to have cared to associate or to become acquainted with any but the lowest. Unless we make these...
Count Giovanni Elia, Fascist, declared that even if the fleets of the U. S. and Great Britain should be made absolutely equal "there would still remain the vastly superior industrial power and unassailable geographical position of the United States...
...Great stone cities slumber, long ruined, in the jungle bush of lower North America. In Mexico the Aztecs, in Yucatan the Mayans developed civilizations which declined and fell so long ago that little is known of them today. Their traditions, lingering in the stones and exhumed jewelry of their cities, are of an antiquity admirably suited to folklore and epic poetry. Hence Payambé, "The First One," a new Mexican opera...
...Fausto Piñedo, a Yucatecan who has adapted European methods of writing to the methods of Mexico's popular troubadour ballads. Under the Minister of Public Education's auspices, Payambé will soon be presented in Mexico City, probably at the Arbeu Theatre, for the great National Theatre, designed for the presentation of opera and drama, though conceived many years ago, is still incomplete...
Eichemeyer, learning that Employe Steinmetz devoured mathematical treatises even more readily than Tom Sawyer, allowed him enough liberty to make his great discovery, the Law of Hysteresis.† This brought Steinmetz kudos from the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and a permanent throne behind the scenes of the electrical industry...