Word: settlement
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Early one morning last week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract...
With the establishment of the majority of the undergraduates in the houses near the river, the need for concentration of class rooms will be even greater. The trend of the College has been and will continue to be toward settlement on the banks of the Charles. With this undeniable tendency in mind it is becoming imperative to concentrate academic buildings with regard to the shifting center of living quarters...
When U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim arrived in Cuba, one of the crankiest, most vexatious problems he found waiting settlement was a $9,000,000 real estate claim of U. S. citizen Joseph E. Barlow, long-time Havana resident and land promoter (TIME, April 29 et seq.). For ten years Mr. Barlow, at times irascible, had been pressing the U. S. Government for justice from Cubans he claimed had stolen his property. Last week Ambassador Guggenheim thought he had found a method of settlement. Citizen Barlow balked at the arrangement...
...brother Francesco was deeply concerned with the settlement of the Lateran Treaties. Through the hands of another brother Ernesto has passed most of the property purchased by the Holy See in recent years. Secretary Pacelli himself is a member of the Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles...
...years ago unusual plays and an annually clever revue (Grand Street Follies) attracted large uptown audiences. The Neighborhood Playhouse in a broader sense represents an idea of Alice and Irene Lewisohn (scionesses of a famed Jewish family), who used to put on plays for children at the Henry Street Settlement. Plays for children grew into plays for grown-ups and in 1915 the Lewisohns built the Grand Street Theatre, opened it with Jephtha's Daughter for which special music was written...