Word: eastern
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Coach Norm Shepard had planned to pitch his ace, Andy Ward, against the Jumbos yesterday, but the rain changed his plan. "I want to use Ward in the Army game Friday," Shepard explained. The game at Army will be the opener of the varsity's Eastern Intercollegiate League schedule...
When Senator Cole pushed for a vote on the senate floor, there was no debate, but the old prejudices boomed through the silence. In the balloting, the pattern was much the same as it had been in 1867: senators from Eastern Shore and southern counties opposed the resolution, most senators from Baltimore and western Maryland were for it. The final count: 13 for, twelve against, four not voting. Since a constitutional majority (15 votes) was necessary for approval, Maryland had confirmed its 88-year-old dissent to the 14th Amendment...
...universality that the courthouse designers reached for in the statues is expressed in an abhorrence of statues by other peoples. Among these are the Mohammedans, whose earliest success in Arabia came by overthrowing local idols and thereby calling attention to the universal God. Eastern Christianity was ripped by two great waves of iconoclasm scarcely less thorough than Mohammed's, and resting on the belief that images of God or of holy persons begot idolatry by distracting attention from the essence of the Godhead to the superficialities of concrete appearance. Today, the issue is only a minor one among Christians...
...Drought. But by and large, a farmer's prosperity depends on where he lives, and how good a farmer he is. In the drought-parched wheat-producing plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas, where the moisture level has reached an alltime low, farm income has fallen as much as 75%-Some small farmers have quit and are moving to the cities or the oilfields. Big operators survived by cutting corners: laying off help, patching up equipment, postponing purchases...
...season opener at Cambridge, New York lost, 8-3. Both sides have beaten Princeton, their only common opponent to date, the Crimson winning 8-0 and New York 6-3. In addition, the New Yorkers have crushed Westmount of Montreal, 17-8, while the Crimson has beaten the Eastern Canadian All-Stars, 6-0; and whipped Dartmouth...