Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though Haiti's juries are filled with men hostile to the government and to the President, Mr. Borno remains in power. Is it possible, they asked, that Senator King is right, that "Commissioner Russell is the power in Haiti," that there is there "an American bayonet rule...
...second place, the Indians are not fundamentally an honest people. If Great Britain really desires to keep India, she must keep a firm rule. They cannot govern themselves...
...people. That is what the word 'Mahatma' signifies. Men working on the roadside, clerks in offices, great potentates?all knew Gandhi and respected his immense power. He was the leader of that great anti-British policy of noncooperation which had as its aim making it impossible for England to rule India...
Significance. To hear Sir Thomas, apostle of "Rule Britannia" one would suppose the Mahatma, apostle of "Rule India," entirely down and out. Actually, Gandhi, a tense, passionate ascetic, usually clad only in a loin cloth and a sash, was easily the dominant figure of the last Indian National Congress. The Occidental press was poorly represented, and only recently* has the picturesque story of the Congress come to light. It sat in a great tent of hand-woven khaddar, at Gauhati, in remote Upper India. Great palms and forest trees canopied the Congress tent, the 5,000 delegates and spectators slept...
...Each classmate knew every other classmate, and at the time of graduation, pictures of every member of the class were purchased by all. I thing those boys were more democratic than this generation is. The snobbish boy was then the exception; now, it seems, his is the rule. Also, when I came to Harvard, there certainly was plenty of liquor. They could let it be seen then, you know, and it was! There were bottles everywhere: most of them empty...