Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word most often on every lip as Greater London's 8,000,000 inhabitants, plus at least 1,500,000 visitors from the provinces, from the Dominions and colonies, from the U. S. and from every country in Europe, Asia, South America, even from the larger States of India and tribes of British Africa, all thought and spoke and made last things ready for the great event of the morrow. London was like a gigantic brain, every cell of which was focussed on one central thought. Like parts of a vast body conditioned by that brain, the world-wide...
...beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological (scientific cave study) Society...
This afternoon at 2:20 o'clock Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Viceroy of India, and the Premiers of all dominions will speak...
...necessarily belong to an inferior race. Nationality and race cannot bear confusion. Contrary to the general opinion, or prejudice, are records of powerful Negro kingdoms in East and West Africa. For centuries Negroes have been skilled iron-workers; in 1500 they did bronze casting to perfection. Much of India's civilization is owed to Negroes. Seventy years of emancipation for the American Negro are no fair test of his capacity. See how Europeans estimated the Japanese fifty years ago, and then read the Hearst papers of today...
...Behanan was a graduate student of psychology at Yale in 1931 when he won a Sterling Fellowship on which he returned to India to make a scientific study of one of his country's strangest cults. Under Swami Kuvalayananda, Dr. Behanan conscientiously underwent a year's novitiate in yoga. Already acquainted with the philosophy, he concentrated on yoga's principal calisthenics...