Word: occidentale
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His Highness, Sir Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, has effected such improvements in the administration of his Forestry Service by Occidental methods that the revenues from the forest of Kashmir have increased from $100,000 to $250,000 per annum.
The War brought Miss Bell to Arabia in the service of the Empire. As a girl and woman, she, the incorrigible daughter of Sir Hugh Bell, "the richest iron master in England," had explored Arabia because, literally, she loved the sometimes childish and sometimes sublime Arabian race. Without Occidental companions...
Divertissement. It is the duty of M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident-General in the French Protectorate of Morocco, to "advise" (command) the Sultan as to his every official act. Through this politic subterfuge, the despotism of Mulai Yusef, unrestricted by any law, civil or religious, is employed with great convenience...
*Assumed by the early princes of Afghanistan, Sind and Bokhara with a significance roughly equivalent to "Sultan" ; elsewhere in the East equivalent to "Commander," "Lord" (in the British sense) or simply "chieftain." The Occidental "Admiral" was derived or corrupted from the Oriental "Amir," "Emir," "Ameer," etc.
*Though the Occidental concept of Satan belongs to the postexilic period of Hebrew development and has no exact Indian counterpart, the word is here employed as the nearest translation of Kali (The Black), dread Indian devourer, cruel goddess of destruction and death. **Doubtless Health Officer Bundesen was responsible only indirectly...