Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Venezuela. They never found the treasure ; the ship lost its rudder; the whole party was towed back to safety by the U. S. Coast Guard. Then Kilkenny sold his shipmates the idea of building a Chinese Junk, and sailing it the 10.000 miles from Hongkong through the Dutch East Indies around Cape Cormorin through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean and out again at Gibraltar, up the Seine and straight to the Paris Fair of 1937. Later, if all goes well, the craft will cross the Atlantic for the New York World's Fair...
...ever more beloved by the U. S. art world than Thomas Benedict Clarke. Born in Manhattan in 1848, he was the son of Dr. George W. Clarke, founder and longtime head master of the old Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, one of the best-known private schools in the East in the years following the Civil War. Young Tom Clarke went into the linen business. His real life, though, was spent buying & selling pictures and furniture. He started the nucleus of his great collection of U. S. portraits in 1872. In 1899, dissatisfied with what he had bought, he sold most...
...last 300 years,. Japan's professional wrestlers have been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo...
Albert D. ("Dolly") Stark was born on Manhattan's lower East Side, son of a second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers...
...keen personal interest in the problems involved in Russia's offensive expansion to the cast enable him to vivify the difficulties of assimilating under central control peoples who are racially different, and who speak 183 different dialects. Although Russia is emphasized, much attention is given to the "Middle East bloc", to China, and to Japan. Personally convinced that world politics of the next century hinge on Asia, he instills his personal enthusiasm into his audience...