Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First lapping merrily, then lunging lustily, impudent waves made mock, last week, of seven wise Britons who set sail as an august commission to India. Patriotic, they will slave for more than a year, voluntarily, at a thankless task. Six of the wise men are Viscount Burnham, until recently owner of the London Daily Telegraph; Baron Strathcona, Unionist peer; Lieut. Col. George Richard Lane-Fox, up to the last fortnight Undersecretary of State for Mines; the Hon. Edward Cecil Cadogan, author-barrister M. P.; Major Clement Richard Attlee, Laborite M. P. and the Rt. Hon. Stephen Walsh, Secretary...
...Shell has inaugurated a price-cutting war in India which will cost them $12,750,000, will cost Standard...
...Shell is agitating for tariff restrictions in India which will virtually oust Standard from the great Indian market...
...Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...
...many would like," Dr. Danner said, "but still there is much room for encouragement. The results in Hawaii the Philippines, and Korea still appear to be better than elsewhere. In other places the percentage does not appear to be so high, but whether you go to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon, India, or Africa, you find persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when...