Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had worked on the case quietly and tenaciously as muskrats for seven weeks, remained, as always, a deep Government secret. Just as unostentatiously, anonymous Secret Service men in Cleveland last week uncovered three more suspect counterfeiters whom they charged with passing $100,000 in forged bills through the East and Midwest...
...coach and smoking pipes. They had brought four rugby balls; just before they started, someone had learned that there was only one new ball in New York. Before the first game-played in New York on N. Y. U.'s Ohio Field, one of the few in the East big enough for rugby-the Cambridge squad visited a night club, attended a Sportsmanship Brotherhood dinner to which President Roosevelt wired: "Wish all assembled a most enjoyable evening." Cambridge's schedule in the U. S. calls for three more games, against Princeton. Yale, and a selected All-East team...
Last week the Smithsonian Institution announced that a free-lance anthropologist named David I. Bushnell Jr., after long sifting of evidence and conferences with Dr. Hrdlicka and other experts, had completed preliminary maps tracing the west-east course of four great tribes. The Algonquion came from the northwest, skirted the Great Lakes, spread over the Atlantic seaboard from Labrador to North Carolina. Some turned south into Tennessee where they were stopped by a wave of Sioux pushing straight across the country from the southwest. From the southwest also came the Muskhogean and proto-Muskhogean peoples who trickled into the Gulf...
...when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him. . . . They departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.-Matthew...
...American Foreign Policy in the Far East," Professor Baxter, Harvard...