Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clause requiring a theatre purchaser to assume the block bookings of his predecessor, or else make a cash "deposit" which might be as much as $1,000. Most cinema houses in the land have operated under such contracts ever since. On the strength of their contracts, the producers map their programs of picturemaking. Thus the contracts might be said to be the backbone of the film industry...
...splendorons scene opened the ruling Princes and Maharajas of the Native States [see map] moved about greeting one another with low salaams. Each placed his hands crossed upon his breast as he bowed. All manifested proud hauteur to ward the mere civilian delegates of British India. Scorned by these in turn, two miser able delegates of India's untouchables [lowest class] scuttled to their places. All the Princes and Maharajas were gorgeously pugreed [turbaned], but all except a few were somberly, impressively clad in long ajkans [tightly-buttoned, turtlenecked black frock coats]. Overawed, Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing...
Popular hero (to English sport fans) of the Indian Round Table Conference last week (see p. 20) was popeyed, genial "Ranji" -thus nicknamed because his proper style is Lieut. Colonel His Highness Shri Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jamsaheb of Navanagar (see map...
Apropos the Princes and Maharajas, both Sir John and Lord Irwin recommend that the two Indias which exist today, namely the princely "Native States" and plebeian "British India" (see map p. 21) should eventually merge into "The Indian Federation," but both Report and Plan are pessimistic on this point, seem to fear that the haughty Indian rulers will refuse indefinitely to merge. During last week the conference did no more than formally assemble, will reach the first stages of discussing Report and Plan this week...
...have been wars of religion, of imperialism, and of revenge, but there is seldom an honest war. Battles give birth to peace settlements that are, as a rule, as futile and as insincere as the combats themselves. The Congress of Vienna which sought so earnestly to roll up the map of Europe forever was followed by a system which several decades later was to leave Europe in the throes of revolution. Disraeli in 1878 said he had won "Peace with honor" for England, and in 40 years she was embroiled in a conflict that struck at the respectability...