Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philippines, 3) Japan-all well within an effective 1,500 mile radius of action. It would also make possible cooperation with Britain's air and seapower at Singapore in case Japanese tried to seize the Philippines and go on toward British and Dutch possessions in the East Indies...
...Steel, already paying as much or more, was contentedly silent. Last week, Assistant Secretary of Labor Charles V. McLaughlin finally set the scale for the industry: 45? in 13 Southern States, 58½? in seven Midwestern States, 60? in eleven Western States, 62½? in the East...
...only drawback to the job at present is that I'll miss the Prom she named one of Harvard's rival institutions--and they tell me it's the best party in the East. He, hum, well I guess you can't have everything...
...happy and energetic race of scholars are archeologists whose camping ground is the Near East. Except for rare cases like the late T. E. Lawrence, they are generally ignored by everybody but fellow professionals. But their patient patchings have from time to time restored wonderful form to old cultures. Such restorations were James Henry Breasted's epochal History of Egypt (1905), Sir Arthur Evans' report on Pre-Hellenic Crete (1921-35). One result is that any good advertising artist now knows more about the very fine arts of the Nile valley and the Aegean islands than Sir Joshua...
Although tea was first sold in England in 1657,* tea gardening remained a Chinese monopoly until 1834. That year, fearing invasion, China threatened to close her ports to foreigners and East India Company merchants promptly began tea cultivation in Assam. The wily Chinese foiled the first attempt by selling tea seeds which had been boiled. Even after cultivation got under way, it was not successful until an Englishman named Robert Fortune disguised himself as a Chinese and spied out the methods used in the famed Chinese tea gardens. Today Britain has ?120,000,000 invested in the tea industry, produces...