Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already the mile and two mile relay teams have established themselves as among the best in the East. In New York last Saturday the former captured the Big Three championship in 3.26, while the two mile quartet outstretched Columbia, Dartmouth, and Yale, losing only to N.Y.U.--by, only a few inches...
Coach Chester Sargeant's Varsity polo team will meet the Eli quartet in a feature match in Chicago tonight, and Saturday they will journey back East to Ithaca to cross mallets with the Cornell team. The encounter with the Big Red replaces the previously scheduled tilt with Toronto Royal Canadian Dragoons...
Under the leadership of Captain Bill Hinton, a ski squad composed of Hinton, Dick Whittemore, Karl Porges, Joe Thomas, Al Eipper, and John Pierpont will, during the next two days, engage in stiff competition with the outstanding collegiate skiers of the East at the 29th annual Dartmouth winter carnival...
...Mediterranean "lifeline." Both France and England would have much to fear from German submarine bases on Spain's northwest coast, four of which, by well-authenticated reports, have already been established. German submarine bases on the Canary Islands could threaten Britain's route to the East around Africa. A victorious Rebel Spain, owing its very existence to German and Italian arms, was expected to join up with the dictators. Instead of having a weak, friendly Spain to her south, France would now have a strong, militarized, probable enemy to contend with. Democratic France, in short, would be bounded...
...rate of ten books a month, in first printings of at least 50,000 copies, Penguin books now sell 12,500,000 copies a year. But much bigger things are in the offing. Allen Lane is now on a four-month tour of India and the Near East. If those markets look as good as they sound, he will begin his biggest venture yet: publishing Penguin books in Basic English, a simple 850-word vocabulary sifted out by Orthologist-Critic Charles Kay Ogden. Besides the prospect of getting rich while combining two of the liveliest ideas in England, Publisher Lane...