Word: indias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Laborite Tom Shaw (interjecting) : "I may say, as the Secretary of State for India once said, in one of his sober moments?" (Pandemonium, furious shouts from friends of the Secretary, the Earl of Birkenhead, a discriminating, not a swizzling drinker...
...deepest mines in the world are in Brazil, South Africa, South India, and Yorkshire, England. The deepest, a gold mine named "Village Deep", and situated in South Africa, in the Penne District, is 7032 feet below the level of the ground. This and many others will be visited by Professor Graton during his year of sojourn. He will visit every mine in the world that is over one mile deep...
...States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs and Pearl, speaking as sociologists, may point out that the pitifully short lives full of hunger and misery endured by the peoples of China and India, and the economic disturbances of Western Europe, are due in large measure to high population density. What of it! It can never happen...
...time than that elapsed since the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth, it seems necessary to recognize not only a stationary population in this country, but also throughout the world. Whether this stationary state will be one of misery for the majority of the people, is in China and India to day, or one of well-being and happiness, will depend largely upon voluntary restriction of population...
...Reactionaries like Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...