Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you very much. How am I going to explain to my Eastern relatives and friends when they find out that you say the section of San Francisco in which I live is "the toughest part of town" [TIME...
Meanwhile, Far Eastern Magazine reported a Chinese Government survey of nine "Japanese-held" provinces* which found that, out of a total of 796 counties, 489 are devoid of Japanese troops and another 248 are, for practical purposes and with the exception of big cities, in Chinese hands. Altogether 92% of these counties are scarcely more occupied than a prairie across which a herd of buffalo has tramped; the Chinese, like prairie gophers, almost always pop up in charge again...
...insuperable handicap in Hollywood. Wanger got into the movie business after a heterogeneous career which included producing a play for Nazimova, service as a War flier in Italy (where he cracked up so many planes he was known as "the Austrian ace"), and running Paramount's Eastern studio in the 19203. Three years ago, he astounded the industry by announcing that he and Mussolini planned to build a "cinema city" on the outskirts of Rome, put Italy into cinema production on a grand scale. When the Hitler-Mussolini axis was formed, the Mussolini-Wanger axis broke. Wanger went...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham: his first big two mile race, beating Indoor Record Holder Don Lash in 9:11.8; an invitation event at the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. meet in Manhattan. I.C. 4-A winner among 28 Eastern colleges: Manhattan College...
Unimpressive in the first round of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Tournament, the Crimson grapplers only garnered two wins yesterday as Bill Daughaday at 165 and "Chief" Boston in the unlimited weight won by falls...