Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courage of the pioneer mother who, with her husband absent in the East, raised a family and tilled her farm on the prairies of the unopened land of Michigan, the young girl who carried the precious pack of Revolutionary information from New London to General Washington in Boston, the southern belle who left her plantation for the Richmond front and the improvised hospitals, and the crusading modernist who feels she too must enter into the spirit of the capitalistic system make us all too aware of the adventurous campaigning life that America's women have lead. But do they reveal...
...little to do with the essential qualities of what is being related; here, as before, the author concerns himself more with the inner than the outer shells of his characters: he churns about in the soul, and finds it much the same on the Malay Archipelago as in East Wapping. Maugham has made the feelings of his characters more important than their dress, the harrowed back-side of their minds more entrancing than their mundane comings and goings in the streets of Singapore; and, oddly enough, he has made the reader follow him, in spite of all the distractions introduced...
Following the custom of former years, many of the Harvard Clubs in the east and middle west will hold Christmas luncheons or dinners for students of the University at home for the holidays. The following have announced such meetings, together with the name and address of the secretary of each Club...
...President Roosevelt his "threeyear plan" for aviation. For variety it was an administrative Decathlon. Back at his Washington desk last week as Lindbergh crossed the South Atlantic and started homeward, Director Vidal was stirring the aviation industry as it had not been stirred since Lindbergh first flew into the east...
...November building contracts in states east of the Rockies were 11% above October, 54% above a year ago and at the highest level in two years. PWA awards accounted for the bulk of the gain, but private construction topped November 1932 by 11%.-Dodge Reports...