Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self who went to Accra on the West coast of Africa to experiment, was there taken to the hospital with yellow fever. On the fifth day when his high temperature was reluctantly dropping and the second stage of the disease had set in, he had a monkey from India (Macacus rhesus) inoculated with his infected blood. The monkey died twelve days later from a severe case of yellow fever. Fifty more monkeys were inoculated and succumbed. Finally serum from the blood of Patient Noguchi, recovering from the yellow fever, was administered and the protective antibodies pre vented animals from contracting...
Militance & Independence. So early as 328 B. C. Alexander the Great marched victoriously over the chill Hindu Kush mountain passes of Afghanistan on his way to conquer in India; but it is a rule of modern history that no Occidental people can conquer and then hold the bleak land of the fanatically warlike Afghans. During the last century Great Britain repeatedly occupied the Afghan capital of Kabul and the town of Kahandar (see Map) but her troops were always withdrawn and invariably with heavy losses. True the Afghan casualties were likewise heavy, but Britons have not forgotten that during...
...Railways. Two projects exist for linking India to Europe by rails. The first would begin by completing the famed Berlin-to-Bagdad link (which already functions to a point some miles south of Aleppo) and then extend the line from Bagdad through Persia to India. A development of prime significance in this region, last week, was the signing at Teheran, Persia, of a $100,000,000 contract whereby an international group including Ulen & Co. and J. G. White Engineering Corp. of Manhattan have agreed to build a railroad from Bander Abbas on the Persian gulf to the Persian capital...
...second and much shorter way to connect up rail linkage between India and Europe would be simply to extend across Afghanistan the lines which already come up from India and down from Russia to the very borders of King Amanullah's realm. Although funds for such a project are not immediately in prospect, His Majesty arranged while in Berlin to have two German engineering firms make preliminary surveys of these routes...
...patron of the arts, frequently offers her young authors the travel and leisure of the diplomatic service (Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux). Author Morand has been attached to the embassies of London, Rome, Madrid, and finally Bangkok. To and from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...