Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Varsity harriers did well considering the fact that they were up against the best distance runners in the East. In the team point score, they were only 19 points behind Syracuse, in second place, while Syracuse was 34 points behind Manhattan. Foote, who placed twelfth in last year's made a good record, and showed himself to be one of the best runners in his class in the country...
...shipping concern to escape the woes of the North Atlantic dogfight is the late great Lord Inchcape's mighty Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. World's largest steamship company, P. & O. operates almost two million tons of shipping, chiefly over the Empire route to India, the Far East and Australasia...
...impudence to publish it. The ensuing scandal ran his book up into a bestseller. Of course most decent men sent the scoundrel to Coventry. But Dinny stuck by him, even in the face of family disapproval. Luckily the fellow had enough grace to leave her, go back to the East where these things do not matter so much. It was a near thing for Dinny, but the implication is that she was well out of it, will be glad later, perhaps will find a real vertebra in the next installment...
...East of Suez...
...NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though Publishers Doubleday, Doran blurb The Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands would be a melodrama. Eye-witness of the story is Dr. Saunders, an Englishman who for some English reason is a pariah to his kind and has become an opium-smoking, suspiciously bachelor dweller among Chinese. An able eye specialist, he has a large practice. On a lucrative visit...