Word: east
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine balloons rose from St. Louis into a wind blowing moderately toward the east. Many of their pilots and aids had been in previous races and it was to be expected that they would surpass themselves in distance and time aloft. But the longest duration was 28 hours, by Belgium's Capt. Ernest Demuyter, winner of four James Gordon Bennett races. He landed only 230 miles from his takeoff. That was comparatively not so bad for the unofficial winner of the race, Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber engineer and twice before a Race winner, traveled only...
Often when the West comes to the East (even when the West comes bearing gifts) the visit is made with the assumption that all things occidental are superior, that all things oriental are deplorable. No such error was made in Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches...
...East: Navy v. Notre Dame at Baltimore; Princeton v. Brown at Princeton; Pennsylvania v. V. P. I. at Philadelphia...
...East: Harvard v. Army at Cambridge; Pennsylvania v. California at Philadelphia; Cornell v. Princeton at Ithaca; Columbia v. Dartmouth at New York...
Cohen faces the prospect of a court session on Thursday, at the Third District Court, East Cambridge, for his offence in distributing circulars last Friday...