Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yachtsmen surmised that Stoertebeker, sighted once before and sailing east on the 40th parallel, was by last week about 600 miles behind the leaders who should reach port this week but who, because of handicaps, may not win the race...
...Poughkeepsie, It was the year's major regatta for college crews-four miles down the Hudson, with five boats from the East to turn back the two from the West which had won six times in the last twelve years. Again the favorite was California, trained to the minute, rowing the odd, short, leg & arm stroke with which Coach Ky Ebright stampeded college rowing in 1932. Washington had beaten California by a split second last spring (TIME, April 22) but that was a shorter race and since then Al Ulbrickson had demoted the eight sophomores whom earlier...
...read a sandwichman's sign: "To India by Rolls-Royce car for ?34." A Scot who could trace his ancestors to Robert the Bruce, Patrick Balfour knew that there must be a catch in it somewhere. Nevertheless two weeks later he was on his way to the Far East, traveling with strangers in two old automobiles...
...companions complained that the howling of jackals kept them awake. But at Baalbek Traveler Balfour's up-to-date boredom crumbled as he brooded over the temples of the past, felt his heart beat more rapidly as he awakened to the enchantment of the legendary cities of the East...
...Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said...