Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time Clock also states that all that stands in the way of the three is American Airlines. The request to the court for an interpretation of the law covering this matter was also made by Eastern, T.W.A., and United. The court suggested that CAB not proceed with its plan to give surface mail to Slick, Flying Tiger and Riddle pending a court hearing on the legality of the plan. CAB agreed...
...home stretch of her Far Eastern tour in behalf of overseas blind, Helen Keller, an indomitable 74, arrived in Burma, was promptly introduced to Premier U Nu. She explored his face with her sensitive hands, pronounced him "a philosopher and a poet." Later, meeting reporters in Rangoon, Helen Keller was asked by Roving Journalist Vincent (Rage of the Soul) Sheean how she felt about one of Playwright George Bernard Shaw's loftier dicta, which, as Sheean recalled, went: "Of all Americans, Miss Keller is the least blind and deaf." Miss Keller replied: "That is not what he actually said...
Cambridge comes to Harvard a week after the Yale soccer game next fall, when the English soccer team plays the varsity as part of its tour through the Eastern...
...Asian Policy appeared in the bookstores early this spring, reviewers welcomed it as a new, timely brief look at American strategy in Asia. The author himself did not claim that the work was, strictly speaking, "scholarly." Within the following two months, however, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, conclusively proved his scholarship with a detailed historical account of the wanderings of a ninth century Japanese monk, complete with a translation of the monk's diary. A two-volume work filled with 1,600 footnotes and maps of mountains and rivers that no longer exist, Ennin's Travels...
Throughout his government activities Reischauer had retained a desire to teach, so that when Harvard made him an associate professor in 1946, he returned to Cambridge. He had to turn down not only the State Department, which wanted him to become deputy director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, but also General MacArthur, who sought him for chief counter-intelligence officer and then as chief historian of the occupation. "I said no thanks to that one," Reischauer smiles. It was teaching that he preferred--in small language classes even more than in the popular "Rice Paddies," History...