Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willing to pay up to $3.30 every week out of sheer delight in professional football, the Detroit Lions finished third among the four teams in the National League's Western Division. Meanwhile, in Boston, even when George Preston Marshall's Redskins dramatically won the championship of the Eastern Division, Bostonians remained apathetic. This year disgusted Mr. Marshall pulled his football team up from Boston by the roots, transplanted it to Washington...
...order to gain valuable first-hand experience with highway problems, the men drove down in cars over some of the more important eastern routes. Once established at Hotel George Washington in New York, they will make short trips of inspection to parkway developments in Westchester, Long Island, and New Jersey...
...worshipper apiece. Among the latter group are to be found a good assortment of rare creeds and unusual cults. Right in our midst there are a proud and effulgent sun-worshipper, a Taoist, a Shintoist, a Calvinist of Science, a Swedenborgian, and representatives of the Covenant Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Apostolic Church...
Groups which claim not over one representative apiece include: People's Church Interdenominational), Lingnan Community Church, Lingnan, China, Mennonite, Dissenter, Evangelical Reformed, Swedenborgian, First Brethren Church, Temple Emanuel, Covenant Church, Eastern Orthodox, Sun-worshipper, St. George Church, Syrian Orthodox Church, Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society, Humanism, Moravian, Plymouth Brethren, the Reformed Church, and the United School of Christianity...
...League would be chiefly a cozy corner dominated by Britain, Germany, France and Italy-exactly the team Benito Mussolini has been trying to get going ever since he got its members to sign his Four Power Pact (TIME, June 19. 1933. et ante). Admiral Horthy, with a fine patriotic eastern European sense of the comparative unimportance of Asia and the Americas, picturesquely suggested that the Asiatic League, the American League and the European League should each have its head office in Geneva. Adept at talking big themselves, Hungarians relished their Regent's grandiose project, improbable as a Hungarian opera...