Word: south
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Europe-West Mediterranean...
...Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
...seats were full and its galleries packed as the government proposed that Hindi replace English as India's official language. To appease the non-Hindi-speaking majority it would be done through a is-year transition period in which Hindi would be spread everywhere (especially in the south). Further, 13 of the lesser languages would be recognized for local and provincial use. Prime Minister Nehru himself defended the government's proposal. He turned his oratory particularly against those who favored a revival of ancient Sanskrit...
Gibbon has already pried open the gate to the last field. By 1939 he had developed a machine which bypassed the heart and lungs of cats for 20 minutes, with no ill effects. When he resumed the work after wartime duty in the South Pacific, Dr. Gibbon won the backing of Thomas J. Watson, president of International Business Machines Corp. With the help of I.B.M. engineers he has improved the machine, made it more nearly automatic...
...addition, Britain has just finished the big, experimental 60-passenger turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes V, and is completing the giant Saunders-Roe Princess, a lo-engined turbo-prop flying boat designed to carry 105 passengers transocean to South America...