Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Periodical cicadas are not locusts at all. When pious New England pioneers found them in enormous numbers, they thought of the locust plagues of the Bible, called the cicadas "locusts." The 17-year cicada is the longest lived of any known insect. One or more broods appear in the eastern U. S. every year. Brood IX, which appeared on schedule last year in its usual region, has a small range-parts of West Virginia, Virginia and North Carolina. This year's Brood X, hatching from eggs laid in 1919, is among the largest. It ranges from Michigan to Georgia...
Captain Maguire's team, which showed marked return to form in defeating Pennsylvania twice Saturday, has mathematically ensured itself of at least a first place tie in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. With three games left to play the Crimson must lose all to equal the present records of Dartmouth and Yale, credited with four loses in twelve scheduled starts...
...glib enough at debating to help defeat Wellesley on one occasion. As a matter of fact, Vassarette McAfee is something of an academic cosmopolite. She was born on the campus of Park College at Parkville, Mo., founded by her grandfather. After Vassar she made a grand tour of Eastern & Midwestern male and female institutions teaching economics and sociology, wound up at Oberlin...
...brothers Berkey, Julius and William, one of whom had taken an afternoon off from logging in the Grand River to hew himself a table. Twenty years later the company was incorporated with $500,000 capital, and the great period of Grand Rapids furniture began. The Eastern market was opened to Grand Rapids when a suite (a "suit" not a "sweet," in the furniture business) by Berkey won a gold medal at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. After that, through the American Victorian, Eastlake, Mission and the Golden Oak periods, Berkey and Gay and the other firms which grew...
...Harvard's first defeat in Eastern Intercollegiate League Competition...