Word: india
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hunting Tigers in India (F. D. Wilson). Commander George Dyott who went to India with the Vernay-Faunthorpe expedition talks about his trip and shows you pictures of it. His record is a good travelog, wonderfully vivid compared to the lectures which, under the same title, have been delivered since time immemorial as a special treat in U. S. boarding schools on Saturday nights, but prosaic when measured against some of the animal scenes that have been artificially arranged in recent romances of wild countries. Some of Dyott's facts are interesting. Indians never kill ordinary elephants, regarding them...
Escorted by Admiralty tugs, the Leonardo da Vinci steamed up the Thames to the West India docks in London's grimy Limehouse. At the dock was the reception committee: Sir Austen & Lady Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, President Sir William Llewellyn of Britain's Royal Academy where the pictures will be shown. Lady Chamberlain hastened aboard to find out whether damage had been done. Proudly Captain Sturlese, nine medals glittering on his breast, told her that every crate was intact...
...following men have been elected to the Tau Beta Pi society of the Engineering School: Saul Samuel Ganick of East Boston, Jacob Ginsburg of East Boston, Ghulam Hassan Khan of Kashmir, India, Charles Howard Wells of Wheeling. West Virginia, and Vasu Dev Zadoo of Kashmir, India...
...following figures, compiled by the National Student Federation, indicate the trend of student migrations: Canada 1,173. China 1,109. Japan 814. Philippines 804. Russia 504. England 369. Germany 360. Mexico 271. Porto Rico 250. India 208. Italy 203. Hawatt...
...which are repairing the quake-broken trans-Atlantic cables. Their sonic soundings showed that the ocean floor had moved and shifted the fishing banks. Because of broken cables and congestion of the unimpaired ones it was quicker last week to send many messages from London to Montreal eastward-via India, Australia, Fanning Island, Vancouver...