Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the present rules that they have wasted a year which could have been more profitably spent in the real studies of the University. It has been suggested that the elementary requirement has been the backbone of the secondary school teaching of German in the East and that it will immediately decline in favor of French if the rules are changed. But it seems a little absurd that the University should support such teaching if the students do not want it. It is the function of a University to formulate the definition of a properly educated...
Although Harvard's polo team has been the highest ranking intercollegiate team in the East either outdoors or indoors, and often both, during the last five years, little notice has been taken by undergraduates of this sport...
...build a magnificent fortress, a Gibraltar of America. Chosen as a good site was a desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with...
...long stage career in Ibsen and Shakespearean roles which ended when he made his cinema debut in Jewels of the Madonna, with Theda Bara (1917). Thereafter he played in serials like The Violet Diamond of Daroon. His career as a Chinese started when he played Charlie Yong in East Is West (1922). For his first Chan picture he got $12,500. Now he gets $100,000 for three in a row. In private, although he has lately taken to coining Chinese proverbs, Warner Oland has few Oriental characteristics. He has never visited China, knows no Chinese except those connected with...
...North American Newspaper Alliance, it would be vetoed unless it involved dashing across deserts in sheik robes. Wanting to go to China, where the Kuomintang Revolution was sweeping up towards Shanghai from the South, he had a hard time persuading his bosses that "personal adventure" awaited in the Far East. Eventually, however, he managed to turn the trick, got a drawing account, set out to interview Sun Yat-sen's widow, the delicate Soong Ching-ling; Borodin, the Russian adviser to the Kuomintang; Eugene Chen, who had been Sun Yat-sen's secretary, and other figures...