Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their time. Upon their arrival in Cambridge Town they rapidly become steeped in the notorious Harvard haughtiness--they never forget that they are the sons of the oldest and richest university in these almost United States. They forget that they were raised on corn bread and pot likker in East Lip, Ark., and go Beacon Street with almost incredible rapidity--usually because they are nearly all put on the Boston deb lists. A youth who has been at Harvard a few months Knows All, because he can toss off Ultimate on the great names and minds to which...
...predicted that if the United States allowed her to continue Japan would eventually menace American interests in the Far East, and said that this is another instance of the democratic ideal being in danger throughout the world...
...Bible. "The oney time," said he last week, "as I tried to read the Bible against God's wishes all the leaves came out." He says that one day when he was 14 years old and working in a cornfield, the figure of God appeared on the east edge of a cloud and showed him a great flood destroying the world. After that he was careful to follow divine instructions...
First warnings of trouble sounded when people who took this medicine for sore throats developed nausea, cramps and inability to urinate. First known deaths occurred in Tulsa, Okla.; next in East St. Louis, Ill.; next at Mount Olive, Miss.; then in Madisonville, Tex.; Carey, Miss.; Copley, Ohio; Clayton, Ala.; and St Louis, Mo. Autopsies revealed destroyed kidneys and livers...
...Philadelphia, the city zoo acquired two Komodo lizards from the Dutch East Indies, tried to feed them raw hamburger, found they would eat only eggs. The keepers forthwith filled empty eggshells with raw hamburger, fed them to the dragon-lizards, found they didn't know the difference...