Word: interring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Houses intramural secretaries will counter with Adolph W. Samborski, director of intramural athletics, in an organizational meeting today in the Indoor Athletic Building to work out schedules for the spring Inter-House competition...
...common-sensical Premier Sjahrir. "On Indonesia," said Sjahrir to his people, "we are lighting a small torch, the torch of humanity. Let us take care of it. Let us hope it will mark the beginning of lightness all over the world." Five days later he left for the Inter-Asian Conference at Delhi. At the Hague, two hours after the pact was signed, a newly convened Parliament promptly ratified it by a vote...
Ancient Delhi, a seat of Asiatic culture a dozen centuries before Christianity, had never seen anything quite like the Inter-Asian Relations Conference. For the first time in history, Asians representing half the world's people came together under Asiatic sponsorship. The 200 delegates, from 30-odd countries and colonial territories, made an impressive spectacle. There were tiny, sloe-eyed Indonesian women in batiked lungis and husky Nepalese soldiers in rich blue brocade, bejeweled princesses, fez-topped Arabs, and lamas from Tibet in long crimson kimonos, their hair done in braids and their ears weighted with blue stone ornaments...
...same time, the yearly outlay of participating libraries will be lessened by the knowledge that rarely demanded books which they might ordinarily have to stoke would be available to their subscribers through inter-library loan...
Behind them the gates opened and hundreds of Indians and others swarmed in to see the show-perhaps the last full dress panoply of the British Raj. Among the spectators were many delegates from the 32-nation Inter-Asian Relations Conference ; many of them had wishful reasons of their own for wanting to be in a final rite of British rule...