Word: siam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over the ocean except on the northern tip of Sumatra, a segment of the Malay Peninsula, the southern tip of Siam and a few Philippine Islands. At the centre of the track the maximum duration of the eclipse was about five minutes, with duration decreasing at each...
Other distinguished onlookers were King Prajadhipok of Siam and his Queen, and Acting-Governor Eugene Allen Gilmore of the Philippines...
...enormous, regal Isotta-Fraschini is the car of two kings of tiny stature, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele and Siam's waif Praja Dhipok. In Manhattan the Isotta is sold by a son of potent Prince-Poet Gabriele D'Annunzio. Sumptuous, fur-carpeted is the new Isotta-Fraschini limousine just presented by Italian admirers to Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius...
...terms the application of these general principles would mean that the Great Powers, being proportionately larger than the Minor Nations, would make deeper slashes in their armaments. The U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy, Japan, for example, might cut their armaments in half. Such lesser lands as Chile, Siam, Belgium might reduce theirs by onequarter. All states in a given category such as "Great Powers" would reduce their armaments by the same fraction. The strengths of the Powers relative to each other would then be exactly the same as before the scrapping took place. The advantage to the taxpayers...
...Sibours. A terrific Burmese storm last week discomfited Vicomte Jacques de Sibour and his wife, daughter of London's department store tycoon, Harry Gordon Selfridge. The de Sibours are flying around the world. After landing at Moulmein, near Rangoon, the couple took off in frisky weather, attained Bangkok, Siam...