Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year he had proved conclusively that he could teach his sport as well as do it; many men joined his beginners class to learn how to use the gloves; and his team was one of the best in the East, for it was they who toppled Virginia from the crown as an undefeated team which they had enjoyed for six years...
...style that Whiteside-coached Crimson crews had rowed in years previous, some of Bolles' associates had anticipated that he would have quite a lot of trouble bringing this new technique to Harvard. The general impression was that his system was too tough to teach the boys in the East; but the difficulties did not materialize and apparently the men are thriving under the new system. As for Bolles, he won't admit that it is tougher; "the way we row now is more logical than any other way. As far as I can see, it's the easiest...
...Church's Oriental pearl, the Philippines are a missionary land, a model of what the Church began trying to perform elsewhere in the East 400 years ago, without anywhere making a comparable impression on brown and yellow millions. In the Philippine hierarchy, seven of twelve bishops are native. Of 1,400 priests-far from enough to care for the Islands -800 are native. The Manila Congress, involving as Eucharistic gatherings always do a number of acts of public faith for crowds of men, women and children, focused primarily on the missionary character of the Church, today filled with...
...years ago commercially made newsprint of Southern pine in a Canadian mill. Last week a more important milestone in the incipient Southern newsprint industry was passed when engineers were commissioned to find a site for "the first Southern newsprint mill," which will be located in 60,000 acres of East Texas pineland...
...backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director of the American Social Hygiene Association, a consolidation of well-meaning organizations which then primarily wanted to eradicate prostitution. Soon practically all U. S. municipalities abolished their "red light" districts to which houses of prostitution, advertised by red lanterns, had been restricted. Then...