Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lieutenant, he learned to command troops, eventually fought himself to high fortune, a houseful of concubines and opium. About 1922 he suddenly abandoned the high life, went to Berlin to study, met Chou En-lai and enlisted in the Communist Party; in 1925 he went to Red Eastern Toilers' Institute in Moscow, went back to China to command a Kuomintang division (though a secret Communist), eventually slipped down to the Hunan-Kiangsi border to join with Mao and begin forming the Red army. Countless Chinese peasants believed legends that Chu Teh could fly, that he "stands higher than...
Much of the rest of the Arctic Sea's bottom is mountainous too. The Russians said that earth folds run across it from eastern Siberia to Ellesmere Island, north of Canada. They did not say how they got this information; presumably they did it by echo-sounding through the Arctic ice or through holes...
...varsity entrants in the three day Eastern intercollegiate Golf Association championships returned to Cambridge a day earlier than expected after being almost completely shut out in tournament play at Dartmouth. The varsity's combined score of 623 Saturday barely gave it a two-way tie for seventh place...
PHILADELPHIA, May 8--Navy's invincible crew, three year king of Eastern rowing, led Penn and Harvard to the finish today to win the Adams Cup for the third consecutive year and stand alone as the undefeated major crew in the East...
...usual, his principal changes will be in the infield, where George Anderson will start at first, replacing sturdy John Maher, whose hitting has been disappointing. Bill Cleary, fourth leading batter in the Eastern league with a .385 mark, returns to second base after playing at third, and senior Ray Maesaka is back in the starting lineup at the latter position...