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...castes; all things being equal, the former have better jobs, higher wages and greater chances to succeed than their new female competitors; they occupy many more places in industry, in politics, and so on, and they hold the most important positions. In addition to their concrete power they are invested with a prestige whose tradition is reinforced by the child’s whole...

...cast shadows whose lengths varied as the day proceeded. Sundials were a sophisticated version, though cloud cover rendered them useless. Indoors, candles helped, with burnout times approximated. [Factory clock [Image: *kitto under CC-BY-NC-ND licence]] Factory clock [Image: *kitto under CC-BY-NC-ND licence] Better still were hour-glasses, like giant egg timers, standard...

...cast and is unable to hold power in any of the Muslim-majority provinces. 1940-1945 Congress resigns its ministries in protest against the British unilateral declaration of war on Germany on behalf of India and the lack of progress on its demand for a transfer of power to a representative government at the centre. It moves to an anti-war stance and launches a mass ‘Quit...

...cast women in a negative manner (lines 1081ff). This protestation from the female chorus does not come out of the blue – rather it follows various negative characterizations of the female sex earlier in the play. For instance, Euripides (a tragic poet himself, of course) has Jason state that women are governed by sexual desire (569-573) and even Medea confesses that her...

...cast into prison, and tried, first by promises, and afterwards put to the question, and tortured with great cruelty; but nothing could shake his constancy. The next day he was led through the city and beheaded. Some think him to have been the same illustrious young man who tore down the edicts when they were first fixed up at Nicomedia, 8 as Lactantius relates in his...