Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southwestern Texas for a fortnight little furry cotton seeds have been lying in the womb of Mother Earth sucking up winter rain, beginning to unfold inside, thrusting out little white roots, pushing up diminutive stalks. Day by day and mile by mile to the east and north other furry cotton seeds are being stuck into the ground for the same purpose. In a few weeks the cotton planting season will be over. For that reason the U. S. Senate last week curbed its 96 tongues, limiting each to 15 minutes exercise until a new farm bill should be passed. Passed...
...more than 100 islands have a total population of 2,437 and lie obscurely some 300 miles east of Cape Horn. Discovered by Britons, they were seized in succession by the French and Spanish. In 1914 the Falklands won their first real fame when off their shores British Admiral Sturdee destroyed the daring German raider squadron of Admiral von Spee...
...encroached toward the Soviet Union. Russia has been afraid to fight back, so Japan has found year after year. Finally and historically, Russia and her vassals began to fight back in earnest last week. This outburst of undeclared war was on the frontier at which a world conflict between East and West can begin any day. Therefore this week the Mongols, their Soviet patrons and their Japanese foes emerged into sudden and major importance (see pp. 24 & 25). Involved are four nations: Japan, Russia, China, Manchukuo, and a fifth-Germany. In Moscow today Soviet official wrath is directed equally...
...teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged by the Soviet Far East Army of Red Marshal Blucher. Finally the Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged to catch the next trains to Russia by Soviet consular officials who handed out railway tickets free to Reds who lacked money. On further orders from Moscow...
Three meets are scheduled for Sunday. Francis and Brooks plan to go to Brattleboro, Vermont, to enter the Eastern Jumping Championship, the biggest jumping event of the East. This jump is far and away the biggest jump in the East, 60 meters (194 feet), and the competition here will be the keenest of any jumping event this year...