Word: east
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Very desirable double room, No. 5 Hastings, second floor. South and east exposure. Apply to bursar...
...Cambridge street. One large south-east room, handsomely furnished, in a new house. With or without board. Terms...
...plans provide for a building of brick with stone basement and trimmings, 190 feet long, and four stories high, with a central pavalion of an additional story. The location will be on the corner of High and Elm streets, diagonally across from the Peabody Museum. The building will face East toward West Divinity. In front will be an open space, with a driveway running through. Opening on this will be three entrances of handsomely decorated stone...
Best general references: J. A. Rus, How the Other Half Lives; Octavia +++ Homes of the London Poor; Chas. Booth, Labor and Life in the East of London; J. B. Russel. Life in One Room; No. Am. Rev. LXXIV. 464-180 (April 1852); Scribner's, XI. 676-721 (July, 1892); Forum. V. 207-215. (April, 1887) Nichol, Statistics of Glasgow...
Suppose now that we take east and west as half way between north and south, then the equator passes through the two former points. In speaking of the east and west one may mean of the sky or earth, which is inaccurate. So in connection with the stars we should speak of the east as the "preceding" direction and the west as the "following...