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Word: monsoon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...hours these unbelievable scenes went on. Then, at last, came the blessed rain, the monsoon, like a healing balm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: No Police Were Touched | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

Rain. Next day all over India driblets of rain began to fall. More than simply the beginning of the torrential monsoon season, the showers signalized the entry of St. Gandhi's campaign into its second. more serious phase, that of nonpayment of taxes. With the monsoons, salt marshes become morasses of mud and slime, inaccessible alike to the Briton and to the Gandhiman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rule, Riots & Rain | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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