Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since many Germans presume Edward VIII to be pro-German, this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death...
...gridiron athletes the Lord Jeffs may be a warmup, but there is no team in the Eastern soccer league more formidable than Amherst, no team that the Crimson booters would more enjoy playing in the middle of the season...
...Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should not strip his walls or silence his matutinals. He, after all, is the "typical Harvard...
Curious part of the decreased crop estimate was that in the Eastern half of the cotton belt, cotton prospects had improved during August to the tune of 264,000 bales. In the Western half cotton conditions had gone from bad to worse. In August Oklahoma had only one twenty-fifth of its normal rainfall. That cut 226,000 bales off its estimated production. Texas, which normally produces one out of every three bales, had less than half a normal August's rain. That cut off 814,000 bales. Other Western states accounted for the rest...
...turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined from 25 million bushels...