Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other made-to-order capitals for young commonwealths include: Washington, D. C.; Canberra, New South Wales; New Delhi, India...
Chemical Laboratories are doubtless almost as old as Chemistry herself--or as Alchemy, her ill-favored sister. They must, indeed, have existed in a primitive form in the prehistoric civilizations of India, of Egypt, and of Sumeria. Chemical laboratories as an instrument of teaching and training are a relatively modern institution. Strangely enough the first person, so far as we know, to have appreciated their value for this purpose and to have advocated their use was a President of Harvard College...
England was healthy, wealthy, wiser than it knew. Upthrusting middle classes were doing wonders in commerce. All over Europe, Henry's age (1500-1550) was a time bursting with new vigor. Old disciplines were breaking down. New countries were opening up?America, Africa. India. The imaginations of men burned with dreams of gold to be brought back by far-ranging ships. Had there been newspapers then, the following names would have been in the headlines? Columbus, Cortes, Pizarro, Copernicus, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Holbein, Cellini, Erasmus, Cranmer, Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell, Luther, Rabelais. Machiavelli, Loyola...
Passage to India. Squadron Leader A. G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieut. N. H. Jenkins of the British Royal Air Force taxied a huge Fairey-Napier monoplane weighing six and one-half tons and carrying 1,000 gallons of gasoline down a special two-mile runway at Cranwell Airdrome in Lincolnshire. They took the air and headed in a southeasterly direction. Twenty-seven hours later they were seen over Bagdad, still going. Forty-eight hours out they passed over Karachi in India with still 1,170 mi. to go to their destination, Bangalore. Two hours later the great plane reappeared...
...rise in coffee imports assured increased purchases from Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela, the two last also adding to their crude petroleum sales. Chile copper and Chile sodium nitrate accounted for the Chilean gain. Low prices for silk and rubber resulted in smaller purchases from all Oriental countries except India. The ten countries selling the most goods (millions of dollars) to the U. S. in 1928 were: Canada 489.0 Japan 384.3 United Kingdom 348.4 Germany 222.0 Brazil 220.7 British Malaya 204.3 Cuba 202.7 France 158.7 China 156.6 British India...