Word: salaams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard zoology staff, who was for eight years an assistant game warden of the Tanganyika territory. Mechanics at the National Zoo built scores of collapsible crates. Keeper Frank Lowe of the Zoo was bidden along to care for animals captured. It was planned to push inland from Dar-es-Salaam, establish a base camp near the railroad and stay five or six months...
...even went so far as to state that Indians were flogged for failure to salaam British officers. But he endeavored to explain this away by asserting: "At that time there were rumors circulating about that the British raj in India was going and there was rebellion about. This order [requiring the salaam] was one of the means by which it was sought to bring home to the Indian people that this...