Word: quetta
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Britain's famed "thin red line" of Empire goes little farther than Quetta, lying beyond the Suliman mountains which wall off India's rich valley of the Indus. The vulnerable door in that wall is the Bolan Pass. With its back to the door is Quetta; beyond it, on the British railroad to the Afghan border, the forts of New Chaman and Pishin. This is the land of the fanatic, black-bearded Pathans. And at Quetta, to draw their teeth, are stationed a British division, the Indian Staff College, a Royal Air Force training school and Sir Alexander...
Small girls strewed rose leaves sticky with perfume ahead of the Viceregal motor as it purred through the streets of Quetta, British Baluchistan's capital. Bearded merchants strewed Oriental rugs, hastily retrieving them once they had been run over by the Viceregal tires. Under a great canopy on the Quetta race course the thrones had been pitched, and there the durbar began...
Hallowell Vaughan Morgan '10, of Germantown, Pennsylvania, was elected president of the Advocate last evening in place of William George Tinckom Fernandez '10, of Quetta, India, resigned. Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, of St. Louis, Missouri, was made secretary to fill the vacancy thus formed. The following business managers were elected: Seward Churchyard Simons '11, of Pasadena, California, John Heard, Jr., '12, of Boston...