Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dartmouth Carnival is the biggest College Ski event in the East. A team from the State of Washington is expected, McGill is sending some men, and the Cantabrigians will find the usual stiff competition from Dartmouth, New Hampshire, who is the defending champion, Williams, and many other colleges...
Pitted against one of the most powerful teams in the East, the Varsity basketball quintet meets Williams in the Indoor Athletic Building at 8 o'clock tonight...
...time for us, I believe, to try to introduce our arts and culture to other lands and thus contribute toward international good understanding, to the enrichment of world civilization, and to the promotion of the peace and happiness of mankind!" This is the 1936 keynote in the symphony of East Asia politics which Japan is trying to conduct. She sees herself as a newborn Britain of the 20th Century, so righteous and so strong that she can afford to be magnanimous in bearing the yellow man's burden. When Mr. Hirota in his speech last week replied...
...vast learning and unquenchable enthusiasm of James Henry Breasted built up the greatest archeological empire in the Near East, with a dozen armies of diggers at work all around the "Fertile Crescent" from the Persian Gulf to the Nile Valley. So able was he in infecting other men with his passion that for Breasted and the University of Chicago John D. Rockefeller Jr. founded the Oriental Institute with an endowment of some $13,000,000 (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). From that ornate building which houses one of the 40-ton stone bulls of Sargon II, the rosy, white-haired little...
...scrip money to get himself elected President of the U. S. Three dice are rolled, the total on each roll entitling the player to stick colored pins in a big map of the U. S. Each State has an arbitrary seven counties, except a few in the East which have only four for lack of space on the map. Count is by electoral vote, and the importance of the State is roughly indicated by the number of dice points required to win one county. Thus while it takes only one point to win a county in Arizona, nine are needed...