Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...week Mahatma Gandhi, wizened, sainted patron of Indian Independence, arose from his couch in the Sabarmarti Ashram, his settlement outside Ahmadabad, wrapped in cloth around his spidery loins, took the high road for Jalalpur, 150 miles away on the Gulf of Cambay in the centre of India's western seaboard. With him proceeded 79 followers? one Christian, two Moslems, the rest Hindus. It was a mission of profoundest significance to Indian Nationalists, for when, after 20 days, the little legion should arrive in Jalalpur, they planned to take pails of water*from the sea, extract the salt therefrom in direct...
...railroading in 1868 as a rodman. He worked for many a road in the East and South, in 1909 became president of the C. G. W. Appointed Wartime director-general of military railroads by Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker, he supervised the shipping of men to the Atlantic seaboard, of railroad supplies to Europe. received the Distinguished Service Medal. the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He lived with his son-in-law, Hopewell Lindenberger Rogers, onetime secretary- treasurer of the Chicago Daily News...
...born players on the roster of ten, left Milwaukee last week, stopping at Ann Arbor, Michigan, for two contests with the Wolverines. After playing Harvard tomorrow night Marquette will travel to West Point for a game with the cadets on Saturday and will complete its jaunt along the Atlantic seaboard next Tuesday against Yale at New Haven. Up to last week the Hilltoppers were leading the Western Conference with five victories and no defeats and had chalked up three more wins against amateur hockey clubs of Wisconsin and Minnesota. They have lost only one contest so far this season...