Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tramp, tramp-the thick-soled, high-button shoes of Norwegian Deputies carried them into the Nobel Institute last week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best...
...whom wrote shorthand, took down to the best of their abilities certain remarks by Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Saito, a fidgety and incessant smoker. They agreed that they had heard him say: "Japan will commit national suicide if necessary to pursue her plan of establishing peace in the Far East. She will pursue this policy if she has to fight both Great Britain and the United States and regardless of the whims of these two nations. Japan has only peace in mind. If we feel it necessary for our purpose of establishing peace in the Far East, Japan will gobble...
Customarily the path of good fiction in the U. S. runs from East to West. A book is published in Manhattan and the story sold to Hollywood. Last week witnessed the process reversed. Out of Hollywood came a scenario, The Mighty Barnum, in book form...
...trustees have been pondering two facts: 1) the centre of U. S. Negro population, fed by the teeming black sections of Washington, New York and Philadelphia, has been shifting rapidly northward and eastward; 2) Lincoln is the only first-rate Negro university north of the Mason & Dixon Line, east of Ohio's Wilberforce...
...average of modern fairy stories, will delight readers who have been badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary Poppins was, to say the least, a peculiar nursemaid. She came to the Banks family on a strong east wind, and firmly refused to give any references. Though her manner was formidable, the Banks children liked her at once, hoped she would stay. She was an efficient nurse, "never wasted time in being nice," was a great one for saying No or Humph. But she was in cahoots with...