Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognition of the growing interest and importance of the Orient in world affairs, Serge Elisseeff, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Professor of Far Eastern Languages has proposed to the Corporation that an entire new division, the Division of Far Eastern Languages, be established...
...Professor Elisseeff's plan is accepted by the Corporation there will still be a total of 16 divisions, since the new Far Eastern Language department would absorb the separate division of Semitic Languages...
Because Kansas is traditionally Dry, many an Eastern toper loudly vows that he will vote for no Kansan who, as President, might favor a return to Prohibition. Alf Landon used to like a drink himself, but now he and his guests get nothing stronger than Coca-Cola. No fanatic on the liquor question, he says he accepts the 21st Amendment as the nation's will...
...from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the peculiar diet of Eskimos led Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of McGill University Faculty of Medicine to join the Canadian Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol on a nine-week cruise last summer among the Hudson's Bay Co. fur trading posts which fringe Hudson Bay and the great islands to the north. Having systematized his clinical, bacteriological, chemical and sociological findings among the Eskimos, Dr. Rabinowitch published them last week...
Hoping to break the spell of the jinx that has reigned over it thus far, Whiteside's Varsity eight will make a determined try for the Adams Cup in the Basin tomorrow against perhaps the two best crews on Eastern waters. Penn and Navy, with tech rowing by invitation but ineligible for the Cup, will line up alongside the Crimson shell and during the nine minutes that follow the stomach-twisting words "Are you Ready. Ready All. Row!", the unofficial sprint championship of the Eastern States will be won, as well as the Adams trophy...