Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christians deported by the Turks from Armenia, Anatolia, Mesopotamia because he was the only priest in Mosul who could speak Turkish. By the end of the War, privation had reduced his charges to 10,000. As a result of the massacres and starvation in the Near East, the Chaldean Catholic Church lost six archbishops, 150 priests, almost 100,000 of the faithful...
...permission from New York City to build tunnels under the Hudson and a great terminal on Seventh Avenue. Mr. Cassatt died in 1906, was succeeded by James McCrea, under whom the tunnels were, completed (1910) and the Pennsylvania Station was formally dedicated. Mr. McCrea also completed the East River tunnels and began work on the Hell Gate Bridge, which links the Pennsylvania to the New York, New Haven & Hartford and makes Manhattan a way-station between Washington and Boston...
...Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East by land...
...McLeans had the finest honeymoon money could buy. To top it off, Evalyn dropped in at Cartier's in Paris, bought herself a jeweled ornament called the Star of the East ($120,000) and smuggled it through the U. S. Customs. Father paid up, of course. Another time when Evalyn and Ned went abroad, to get over having had their first baby, Evalyn won about $70,000 at Monte Carlo and they set off to drive to Paris. When they got there, having beaten the train time by ten minutes, they found that their chauffeur, forgotten in the back...
...transmitter of the Radio Club, placed in the basement of the Astronomy Laboratory, ostensibly to make contact with the East African Observatory, has become a source of aggravation to the graduate students residing in Perkins Hall...