Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Room of the White House, the President received delegates to a National Parole Conference, told them that, with 60-70,000 prisoners coming out of jails and reformatories every year, their handling by the different States is of vital concern to the country. Said he: "We know from experience that parole, when it is honestly and expertly managed, provides better protection for society than does any other method of release from prison...
...Five marble-floored rooms at the extreme east end of the station, with a private exit to motor cars. Three of the rooms are high-ceilinged salons with official seals, handsome paneling, mahogany & blue leather furniture. Two retiring rooms are fitted with new streamlined plumbing (light cream...
...Profoundly middle class," he states, "the West, in which I include the twenty four states north of the Mason-Dixon Line between Pittsburgh and the Pacific, are basically one, and, opposed to both the East and the South, are the strongest single force in the Senate...
...from the geographical pole to the magnetic pole does it point true north. From other points in the world the needle, pointing to magnetic north, makes an angle with true north, and that angle mariners call variation. In the Pacific Ocean the needle points as much as 30° east of the geographical pole; in parts of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans as much as 45° west...
...When Broadway roared last season at Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, it was really patting some forgotten Greek dramatist on the back for his Amphitryon 1. When Broadway flocked to O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, it was saluting Aeschylus' Oresteia with a Down-East accent. And given practically straight, Aristophanes' lewd, witty Lysistrata proved a Broadway...