Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visiting booters hold a 3 to 2 overtime victory over M.I.T. and are primed to upset Coach Carr's defending champions of the Eastern League. Kelley and Jenkins team together remarkably well and figure to be a thorn in the side of the Harvard defense all afternoon...
American Independence League officers announced last night that a conference of twenty or thirty colleges at the New York World's Fair this weekend will map a campaign to organize all Eastern campuses against participation in the European...
About ten years ago the U. S. and Britain divided the Atlantic's weather reporting between them; storms east of 35° longitude (even with the eastern edge of Brazil) were hunted by Britain; those west of 35° by the U. S. and Canada. But since the opening of World War II, the great British weather-broadcasting station at Rugby has been silent, lest it give aid to enemy bombers, and U. S. weathermen have been left completely in the dark about weather forecasts east...
Irene Castle McLaughlin, longtime plaintiff in a divorce suit against Major Frederic McLaughlin, petitioned that their daughter Barbara, 14, be removed from Ferry Hall school in Lake Forest, Ill. (Alma Mater of Jean Harlow), transferred to an eastern school. She testified: "I visited Ferry Hall last spring and was disappointed by the class of girls there. Some of them dyed their hair. . . . One day recently, I asked Barbara to come and see me and she said she couldn't because they were going to have steak for dinner." Steak or no steak, the court ruled that Barbara should stay...
When it met in Atlantic City, N. J. last fortnight, the Eastern Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church had only one big item on its agenda: to declare itself legally dead. The M. P. Church, split off from ordinary Methodism for 111 years because of doctrinal disputes and a rooted antipathy to bishops, had rejoined it last spring, thus helped to form the nation's biggest Protestant sect, the new Methodist Church (TIME, May 8). For 16 M. P. churchmen from southern New Jersey, this merger was newfangled and nefarious. For the record, one of them asked the conference...