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Word: east (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to east aside all your realistic prejudices and keep you tongue in your cheek during the movie version of the comic strip. "Harold Teen," you may be amused, Often the worldly and sage Harvard man can gain a kind of indirect pleasure by disinterestedly smiling, with his easy attitude of superiority, at such a Hollywood travesty as "Harold Teen." Hal LeRoy plays the vacuous Harold Teen with an inanity at is marvelous to behold, He also manages to fit some of his dancing in at the end of the picture. Rochelle Hudson, too, seems to realize that...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/25/1934 | See Source »

...send a championship seven to the meet. There was John Lyman, burly shotputter, who can toss the cannon ball some 54 feet; there was Gordon Dunn in the discus; A1 Blackman in the 400; jack Mottram in the Javelin; and a bunch of others that the boys from the East should keep their eagle eyes on every minute of the time. Because, after all, with Southern Cal out of the running Stanford is probably the most logical contender for the title in spite of their amputated contingent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 5/22/1934 | See Source »

...speaks of "British thoroughness," situations "saved by British coolness," believes the British owe their love of adventure to Viking blood from the Normans. Thus although he gives the Dutchman Willem Janszoon credit for discovering Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast of the continent and won it for England. Yet he admires great explorers of any nationality, particularly Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. He las crossed the same fearful stretch of Persian desert where Marco found the water "so bitter that no one could possibly drink it; a single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Herodotus to Byrd | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...Quincy were shut off completely, Fogg, the Faculty Club, and the Union would be brought into closer contact with the University. If the pavement were torn up and replaced by grass, Quincy Street would eventually appear to be merely an extension of the Yard, and the buildings on the East side would lose their present disconnected aspect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOSES AND GREENSWARD | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...taking on the mashie men from New Haven. In the Freshman matches last Saturday, it was not at all uncommon for one of the first-year men to turn in a card of 73 and 74 for 18 holes on one of the hardes; golf courses in the East. And that being as it is, what will the Blue's best players be able to exhibit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So the Story Goes . . . | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

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