Word: siam
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...ends of the earth. By the year 1914, 84% of the world's land surface, apart from the polar regions, was under either a European flag or that of a former European colony. Of the nine nominally independent non- Western nations, Bhutan and Ethiopia were politically insignificant; Afghanistan, China, Siam, Nepal, Persia and the Ottoman Empire were under varying degrees of thrall to Western powers; only Japan was truly autonomous...
...spicier Asian dishes, visit the Square's equally good Thai restaurants, Siam Garden on Mt. Auburn Street, Bangkok House on JFK Street and Singha House at 1105 Mass. Ave. Be prepared to suffer silently as spicy shrimp assault your palate--each eatery's subdued atmosphere discourages vocal displays of pain. The food is far from bland, but the portions are small and expensive...
Dining in the Square is an evolutionary process. From Bertuccis and the Border you move on to more unusual offerings such as the Siam Garden and Roka. But eventually, every Harvard student will end up at the Hong Kong...
Those kinds of facilities, in addition to the school's more august holdings (it has a Gutenberg Bible and a garden donated by the King of Siam), help give Eton more the air of a university than a high school. That impression is intensified by the precocious self-possession of its students, who seem to have nothing teenage about them, maturing overnight from short pants into three-piece suits. Recent issues of the Eton College Chronicle, the boys' magazine, feature long articles on perestroika, detailed surveys of Malawi, rhymed quatrains about Salman Rushdie. Boys put on plays by Ken Kesey...