Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Curley will sweep the town today, hang up a mark for other candidates to aim at in the years to come, be hailed and proclaimed tomorrow as one of the leaders of his party in the East...
...come, for although they took all five exhibition games in Hawaii, several Japanese found Crimson mounds men's wares to their liking and set down John Harvard in short order. As a matter of fact, Nipponese teams took no less than six of the ten contests in the Far East. Slip-shod fielding on the part of Harvard and heads up baseball by the home teams contributed to the downfall of the Crimson...
...years ago. Before that he had schooled horses on a Texas ranch, | where his employer taught him the game, gave him mounts when he improved sufficiently to go to Meadow Brook. The 10-goal handicap he got last winter was the reward for his performance in the first East-West series. Elmer Boeseke, the other 10-goaler, is the biggest high grade U. S. poloist: 6 ft. 4 in. He played on the 1924 Olympic team which lost to the Argentines in Paris. Eric Pedley, whose j handicap was reduced from 9 to 8 two years ago, is still considered...
...East's main problem, after Thomas Hitchcock (who has had his 10-goal handicap for 13 years) was injured in the second trial match last month, was to pick from an overabundance of able young players the four who function best together. Younger, lighter, with an aggregate handicap of 30 goals to the West's 36, East last week had only one seasoned Internationalist: Winston Guest, who had returned from a honeymoon withhis Woolworth heiress bride, Helena McCann Guest, just in time for the trial matches. Of his three teammates only one played in the East-West series...
...backward crown colony is British Guiana, sprawling just east of Venezuela over an area of South American forests, rivers and seacoast almost as large as Great Britain. But in 1856 British Guiana was even more backward than it is today. Georgetown, its capital, did not then boast two 40-bed hotels. That year the colonists ran out of stamps, printed a small issue on a newspaper press to tide them over until the arrival of a shipment of regular stamps from England. Only one stamp of that issue is known to exist today. It is the most valuable stamp...