Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nights before Christmas the overcrowded Paris-to-Nancy express stopped on a red signal in a pea-soup fog 15 mi. east of Paris. At 8:15 the Paris-to-Strasbourg express hurtled at 50 m p h into it from behind, knifed the baggage car in two, plowed through four jammed passenger cars...
Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.* There in a wastebasket he came across a bundle of 43 stray vellum leaves which a monk had tossed aside for lighting fires. Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text. He asked for more. The St. Catherine monks showed him some, refused to part with them. Scholar Tischendorf took home what he had, published it as the Codex Friderico-Augustanus...
...earliest known cotton. For the cotton and for his fabulous gardens at Nineveh he needed water. Dr. James Henry Breasted, famed founder-director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, returning from an airplane visit to his twelve lieutenants and their staffs busy in the Near East, said that Sennacherib brought his water through a 3O-mi. aqueduct. A member of the Irak expedition, led by a friendly native, had found a 1,000-ft. section of it still standing on pointed arches. Most ancient aqueduct ever discovered, it was at first mistaken for a "bridge" because...
Last week the U. S. college hockey season got under way. In the East the teams of the newly formed Intercollegiate Quadrangular Hockey League (Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton) were playing for a trophy in memory of Hobart Amory Hare ("Hobey") Baker, famed all-around Princeton athlete of 20 years ago. Shrewd critics rated Princeton's team best this year, Harvard's next. All four started with victories over early opponents until Yale tackled McGill in Montreal last week. McGill, with its best team in 15 years, ran a 5-to-1 score over Yale without appearing...
...interest. ¶Stockholders of Socony-Vacuum finally satisfied the proposed merger of their Far Eastern oil properties with those of Standard Oil (N. J.) (TIME, Aug. 21). Thus a new overseas empire came into being, stronger than the sum of its parts: whereas Socony-Vacuum had markets in the East but no production, and Standard Oil had production but lacked markets, new Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. will have both. ¶It was news last October when Atlas Tack Corp. announced that it had started to make bottle-caps. It was news when Kermit Roosevelt and John Sargent, the insurance partner...