Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biltmore, the Candidate stood up in an automobile and said he was glad to be there. He told his five thousand or so welcomers how busy he had been, governing New York-an amiable, spontaneous yet perfunctory speech until the last sentence. Then, slily combining his oldtime East Side accent with the local vernacular, he said: "I hope to meet yez-all personally before I leave." The North Carolinans cheered...
...Paris fellow surgeons discreetly discussed a rumor that Dr. Voronoff has gone to the Near East to invigorate a very great patient indeed...
Briskly, and yet with due reverence, Crown Prince Umberto of Italy came unto Jerusalem last fortnight. The pilgrimage was made to top off an East African tour which His Royal Highness has just made through Italian Somaliland. Afric suns have burned him to a deep-toned brown...
Cholera, furiously fatal intestinal disease, is as old as populated India; and until 1817 never left the home grounds. In that year it spread East; with the increase of travel in later years it spread West, invading the Americas in 1826 and 1873. The great pandemic of 1879 to 1883 threw a scare into the civilized world, sent scientists to microscope and test tube, sent Robert Koch* into Egypt from which he emerged with the Vibrio cholerae, cause of all the trouble. Work on the troublesome organism has not ceased since that time. During the last epidemic the British Government...
...told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance, how he may be helping prostitution by buying a scarf made under conditions of sweated labor in some Far East factory...