Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train roared away to the East Prussia in which Hindenburg was born and in which last week he died. It was being ravaged and invaded by the Tsarist armies of Generals Samsonov and Rennekampf. The Russians outnumbered the German defenders under General von Prittwitz nearly two to one. They had scared him so badly that he had telephoned to the German Supreme Command a panicky proposal for withdrawal which cost him his post...
...drawings, notable for the dramatic effect obtained with an economy of line, are subject to editorial approval but are seldom changed. Best known among the 126 Post-Dispatch reporters and newsmen who take their orders from Managing Editor Bovard is probably Paul Y. Anderson, once the paper's East St. Louis correspondent, whose race riot investigations in 1917 started him on his way up. Smarter than his foppish attire would suggest, he is particularly able on the crusade type of story. Many of the crucial questions asked witnesses in the second Oil Scandal investigation (1927-28) were first written...
...Dolichocephalic: long-skulled; phalic: short-skulled. **A Pacific island, north of Australia, east of Borneo...
...racetrack) ; Joseph Widener (just back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo on Long Island in the test games for the East-West matches). Notably absent was Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, who was recuperating from pneumonia on Long Island...
...been a good year for favorites, only 80 of the 100 who began to operate at Jamaica in April were still in evidence last week. Most noticeable was "Long Tom" Shaw, lean, 6-ft. 3 bookie who has handled more bets this summer than any other bookmaker in the East...