Word: easterner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vagabond decided to make his Columbus holiday different from just another day off from classes. Heading for Gloucester early in the morning he boarded his trim sloop and swung rapidly around the jetty on Eastern Point, laying a course for the whistling buoy off Thatcher Island on the tip of Cape Ann. Soon wisps of fog rolled in on the heels of a fresh southerly breeze, and he checked his position before losing all sight of the surrounding waters. Miraculously the fog blew away in a few minutes, and he saw the twin towers of lighthouses that stand on Thatcher...
Last spring the Varsity ball team failed to cop the Eastern Intercollegiate League title due to a split with Yale in the League games. In the first game of the crucial series in which Harvard needed to grab both contests to take the crown, the Eli sewed up the top position by winning a sensational 14-inning game, 7-6, at New Haven on June 22. On June 23, on Soldiers Field, the Crimson assured themselves second place by staging a comeback, overcoming a large Yale lead, and winning 10-7. With the League games over, but the Yale series...
...season, every day from 7:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. to stay on the mountain tallying birds, while his wife stays at the foot of the mountain directing visitors, mostly neighbors. Majority of birds that fly over are ordinary broad-winged hawks, sharp-shinned hawks, eastern red-tailed hawks. Among thousands, however, are the rare golden eagles, turkey vultures, bald eagles, an occasional gyrfalcon flying down from Greenland...
...sentenced to a year in jail because he: 1) told two undertakers and a minister that his grandmother was dead, made funeral arrangements, borrowed money- to be paid back from the insurance; 2) told Mrs. Emma Appleby that his grandmother and niece were dead on Maryland's Eastern Shore, asked her to pack up and go with him to take charge of double funeral arrangements, swiped her baggage...
Speaking at the induction of Dr. Edmund Day as President of Cornell University today, President Conant will be taking part in one of three such coremonies on principal Eastern campuses...