Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-harried elephant finally facing an enemy, Britain last week turned in her tracks. It was an impressive and world-shaking spectacle. Hard as it is for Britain to change, in one short week she turned her back on a longestablished policy of no military commitments in Europe east of the Rhine-turned, whole-elephant, and guaranteed that the British Fleet, along with the French Army (and the combined Air Forces of the two nations) would fight to protect the States of Eastern Europe from further Nazi aggression...
Flush from the Czech seizure, the Führer began to threaten Poland. The German Army was already partly mobilized. Troops were moved toward the Polish Corridor and toward Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, where Poland has large interests and investments. East Prussia had become an armed camp. Finally the Nazi Government submitted its demands: German absorption of Danzig, a German auto road across the Polish Corridor, a Polish signature on the German-Italian-Japanese anti-Comintern Pact...
...snowy hillocks of New England, profitably instructing the ski-minded East, ride many of the finest skimeister the Alps have produced. But their hearts are as heavy as their purses; they pine for the lofty Alps...
...most Alpiners, the Rocky Mountains would be more homelike, but the big money still lies on the low slopes of the East. Skiing, however, is perking up in the West. Last weekend, at Government-built Timberline Lodge on Oregon's 11,253-ft. Mt. Hood. 5,000 spectators watched more than 100 top-flight skiers from the U. S., Canada and Europe compete in the season's most important ski competition, the National Championships. From the winners would be picked the U. S. slalom and downhill teams of five men and five women to be sent...
...more than 50,000 cases of malaria. In certain districts the mortality rate was as high as 10%. After leaving 90% of the Jaguaribeans feeble and impoverished, the gambiae continued their flight. If the mosquitoes should reach "the well-watered Parnahyba and Sâo Francisco River Valleys [in east-central Brazil]," wrote Mr. Fosdick, ". . . it would be impossible to prevent [their] spread to a large part of South. Central, and perhaps even North America. The Parnahyba Valley is 500 miles from Natal; the gambiae mosquitoes are already nearly half way there...