Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thorns and Orange Blossoms", a super-melodrama of the Gay Nineties period, is of the same school of "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" and "East Lynne", and business manager Peter Rabenold '37 guarantees that there will not be a dry eye in the house at the finish of the tragic third act, Delta Upsilon actors will take the parts of hero, villian, heroine, will do their utmost to see that virtue triumphs over evil...
...being handed to the populace, up from the milling, shouting, scrambling mob flew a flock of hand grenades left over from the War. Ethiopia's Archbishop in his flowing robes shared in the worst of the blast, received ghastly wounds. General Aurelio Liotta, Chief of Italy's East African Air Force, went down with great lacerations in his leg. The Viceroy, although wounded, was able to stand, shouted orders to his troops to arrest the whole mob of 2,000-an old Ethiopian custom...
...railroad adage holds that "the faster a passenger train moves, the more other traffic is retarded." Reason: when an express meets or overtakes a local or freight on single-tracked lines, the slower train has to be shunted temporarily onto a siding. In the East, almost universal adoption of double tracks has eliminated this trouble, but in the West many railroads are still largely single-tracked. Last week, one such road, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, announced that it had reversed the old adage. Burlington has cut train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which...
Most sensational team in the East last year was the one that represented Long Island University, started eleven years ago in a disused factory, which ran up a string of 43 victories in a row. Last week, Long Island got ready for the crucial game of New York's metropolitan season, against Manhattan this week, by nicking St. Thomas, 33-to-25. Other major games of last week: Navy 42, Army 40, at Annapolis; Harvard 37, Columbia 30, at Cambridge; Fordham 31, N. Y. U. 19, in New York...
...Engen of Salt Lake City; the national amateur ski-jumping tournament: on Ecker Hill 25 mi. east of his home town; by jumping 245 ft. for a new U. S. record...