Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still looks like a callow Eton schoolboy. None would have added the idea that Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is as pink and paunchy as Henry VIII. Finally, few would have been so hardy as to gaze upon the strong, burly figure of Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead and then remark that if he would only carry an ax instead of a Malacca cane he would make a capital headsman...
...flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives. Thus, ended the brief flight of Capt. Georges Pelletier Doisy and his navigator, M. Gonin, who had set out to break, by flying 4,400 miles from Paris to India, the world's non-stop record (held by Flyers Chamberlin and Levine...
...large and distinguished governing body of Oxford University voted last week, 229 to 164, to limit the number of women students to 620, being a ratio of one woman to four men. Among those voting for the limitation of Oxonian women was the suave Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary for India, who once said to Lady Margaret Haig Rhondda:† "Madam, I would be delighted to meet you anywhere except in the House of Lords...
...announced yesterday. Professor Graton has previously been granted a Sabbatical for the year 1927-28 and backed by the Bureau of International Research has formed plans to study rock and ore formations in the world's deepest mines which are to be found in Brazil, South Africa, and South India...
...Rhodesia. The work in South Africa, however, will constitute only a small part of Professor Graton's extensive survey which comprises visits to every mine in the world over a mile deep and which takes in most of South America as well as Africa and certain spots in India and England...