Word: quetta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called "Grand Accounting" only every three years. He will close the books of Hyderabad's present financial triennium Oct. 5, 1937, including such comparatively recent items as $65,000 to the Memorial Fund for King George V, $25.000 for Hyderabad broadcasting equipment, $12,000 to victims of the Quetta earthquake and an additional $9,000 to the academy named after Indian Poet Sir Rabindranath Tagore. Because his exalted Highness the Nizam is a Mohammedan (a descendant of the last Mogul Viceroy), while about 90% of his 15,000,000 subjects are Hindus, it was discreet in 1902 to appoint...
...world average for earthquake occurrence has long been known to be at least one per hour; there are sound reasons for suspecting that it may exceed one per minute. A shock such as the one which destroyed Quetta, India, is inevitably followed by aftershocks which may number thousands within a month or more...
Uncounted thousands of the quick and the dead still lay last week in the ruins of Quetta in British Baluchistan, smeared by earthquake last fortnight (TIME, June 10). Against the menace of fire, flood, jackals, looters and cholera, a British division surrounded the town and dug frantically in the ruins. But when a rumor spread that the British planned to dynamite and abandon Quetta, natives set up a mighty howl, pointed out that in other earthquakes men had been dug out alive as long as a week afterward...
Added last week to Quetta's 26,000 dead were estimates of at least 30,000 more buried in the ruins of a hundred villages and towns from Kalat to Mastung. Survivors at Quetta watched with weary awe last week as another earthquake split a mountain in the distance and made a depression where the peak had been...
...match Quetta's disaster last week, statisticians were obliged to recall Japan's 1923 earthquake in which 99,331 were killed...