Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huey, one of the most highly paid pigskin prognosticators in the Far Eastern area, resigned in a huff in 1951 after Princeton defeated the varsity in the Stadium...
Apparently heartened by the varsity's 28 to 26 victory over Colgate last Saturday, the CRIMSON's Far Eastern football expert. Hu Flung Huey oCC, stated last night that he will return to football predictions...
Plenty of seedable clouds, says Dr. Bowen, drift over Australia without springing a leak. An area of some 1,000,000 sq. mi. to the west of the Great Dividing Range of eastern Australia is chronically in need of rain, and Bowen is sure that cloud-seeding can increase the precipitation of this area by a critical 50%. In northern Australia, the important thing is to make the rain come at the right time. This can be done, Bowen thinks, by seeding the yearly monsoon clouds, which often build up for weeks before rain begins to fall...
...this man away-anywhere-quickly," the Sultan cried. The government hoped to save itself by submission to the conqueror; Kemal's unyielding patriotism endangered these schemes. So Mustafa got magnificent and meaningless titles-Inspector General of the Northern Area and Governor General of the Eastern Provinces-and was put aboard a leaky Black Sea steamer bound for Samsun, in remote Anatolia...
...other teams tried out the new rules. Among the surprises: ¶ University of Michigan, looking better than the preseason dope, scored five times in ten minutes, wound up smothering the University of Washington in an intersectional game, 50-0. ¶ Navy, which some experts rank as the top Eastern independent, steamed up & down the field against lightly regarded William & Mary, but never quite zeroed-in its attack, was lucky...