Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Theodore M. Olesen, Jr. 24, unemployed Cambridge housepainter, who has confessed to charges of looting valuable objects on exhibition at the Peabody Museum on the afternoon of December 31, was arraigned in the East Cambridge Courthouse yesterday on three counts of breaking and entering...
...human affairs it sometimes happens in efforts to save lives that more lives are lost than those originally at stake. That is what happened last fortnight to Soviet Russia. In the jumbled waste of pack ice east of Greenland four scientists were dangerously drifting on their "'station," a floe which was in constant danger of breaking up (TIME, Feb. 14). For nine months, as they were carried by sea currents southward from the Pole, they had made observations in Arctic meteorology, oceanography, magnetology and marine biology. To help with the rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow...
Across the U. S., from Vermont to Utah, stretches a chain of 80-odd monuments, testimony of the rise of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the East, and its long trek westward a century ago in search of religious and economic freedom. A notable marker is the one on the hill east of Salt Lake City where Brigham Young first gazed over the Salt Lake Valley, exclaimed: 'This is the place!" This small stone, it was announced last week, is to be replaced next year by a monument more fitting to the great occasion...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...
Their pre-publication office was a room in an ancient two-story frame house on Manhattan's East 18th Street. Between their desks stood a large iron kettle-about the size and shape used by African cannibals for the boiling of missionaries...