Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undertaking its most ambitious schedule since the return of the sport to Cambridge, the Harvard Varsity boxing team will tackle eight of the strongest college boxing teams in the East next year. Syracuse, eastern intercollegiate champion, holder of the Southern conference crown, is a newcomer on Coach LaMar's schedule. Harvard's veteran aggregation will journey to Virginia in January to meet the champions of the South...
Roosevelt is an authority on the animals of the Far East. He has recently published, in collaboration with H. J. Coolidge '92, assistant curator of mammals in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, a book, "Three Kingdoms of Indo-China...
...sighted below Philadelphia Captain McCord changed the course from south to northwest. Said Commander Wiley: "Although my own inclination was to go west, he had as much or more information than I and his judgment was just as good as mine. . . ." Later, however, when the ship was heading east at sea, Captain McCord told him that a helmsman had misunderstood one of his orders. Instead of changing course by fifteen degrees, he had changed by fifty. Sometime thereafter the course was changed to west...
...against the Irish champion, John Lawlor, a best-of-21-game series for the world's championship and a $1,000 sidebet. One-wall handball started in 1900. Cheaper, more convenient and less subtle, it is more popular in the East than the older game. Squash handball, played with squash rackets on a handball court, is popular in California. For persons too lazy or slow to be good at singles, which can cause expert players to lose as much as 10 Ib. in a match, doubles handball on the same sized court (46 by 22 ft.) is a comfortable...
...ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired him permanently, and once when Harry threatened to quit, surprised him by begging him to stay. Durham got so fond of Harry that when Dot, a "dudine" from the East, invaded the sanctity of the woods and took Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining Dot to Harry's cabin they were just on the verge of a happy beginning when the forest fire broke...