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When Mr. Gandhi should reach the sea, when he should defy the British salt monopoly,* when he should break British law by scooping up a little sea water and publicly evaporating it to recover a mere pinch of salt?what then? Would enough Indians respond to this, the agreed signal for nonviolent, mass civil disobedience? Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,? buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands...
...women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also. With some difficulty and no little expense he set aside one of the Parliamentary bathrooms, tastefully shrouded it in cretonne, appointed a respectable, middle-aged bathmistress. The lady M. P.'s did not respond. While the bathmistress, with soap and towels at hand, received her salary in idleness, Commissioner Lansbury protested loudly that he had been deceived. He had spent the people's money under the impression that the ladies...
...best general conditions are: temperature range between 40° F. and 75° F.; humidity 60.* Because individuals respond with varying ease to changes of humidity and temperature, the individual optimum is best indicated by his pulse rate. The nearer to normal his pulse goes the more efficient he is. The normal pulse rate for men is 68 to 75 a minute...
...little man was so overcome with joy that tears coursed steadily down his cheeks, sobs choked him. He was unable to respond to frenzied exhortations for a speech. The pandemonium lasted 15 minutes. Almost smothered by his well-wishers, Editor Leon Daudet clung to the famous taxi, the very cab in which last year he was spirited away from the Prison de la Santé to Brussels with French secret service men upon his track (TIME, July...
...glad to respond again to an invitation from the CRIMSON to discuss some phase of the prohibition question. There is so much misrepresentation in the daily papers as to bewilder anyone who does not read more than their misleading headlines. Most metropolitan dailies are wet, and are doing all they can to misrepresent the issue. It is well for college students to get their information from something a little more dependable than newspaper headlines...