Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saturday the nine will meet Navy, the defending Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League champions, in a contest which may decide the league leadership this year...
...mission has become even broader than its name. "Our concept of Europe," says he, "goes as far as liberty goes." Underlying Themes. Today, financed by grants from the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and West German governments, the college has 37 students from 16 different countries, including three refugees from Eastern Europe. All are university graduates, and except for two American Fulbrighters, all get college scholarships. They are allowed to stay only one year ("If we made it longer," says Brugmans, "we would, I fear, attract the eternal student"), but in that time, they are confronted by a course of studies duplicated...
...reporting on the lack of success of the Navy's recently declassified "Project Scud." While maintaining a neutral position, Dr. Spar agreed that the thing should be tried. Backed by the Office of Naval Research, he organized a two-year experiment that covered the U.S.'s eastern seaboard. During the periods of January to April 1953 and December 1953 to April 1954, Dr. Spar and his assistants at New York University selected 37 "meteorological situations." Ten hours ahead of the time that they thought the clouds would be ripe for seeding, they telephoned Norfolk, Va. When zero hour...
...appealing little autobiographical sketch, now published in English, by a writer who was as close to the folk stream of East European Jewish life as blintzes and borsch. In countless stories (The Old Country, Adventures of Mattel) he humorously chronicled the bittersweet life of the late 19th-century eastern ghettos-pious, self-contained, but poised on the brink of a new Diaspora to Western Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse his playmates by mimicking...
...Crimson rugby team took another step towards capturing the Intercollegiate Cup-Eastern Championship double on Saturday, as it edged Dartmouth, 6 to 5, for its sixth victory. The side need now only take one of its two remaining league games with Princeton and Yale to ensure the sweep...