Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arctic adventuring in a Norwegian sealing boat to the ice-bound coast of eastern Greenland was described by Lawrence Kilram '32, of the Harvard Medical School, yesterday afternoon in an illustrated lecture at the Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...hundred rare Chinese books, salvaged from the war torn areas of central and eastern China are now resting safely in a fireproof room in the cellar of Boylston Library, after a year and a half of work in China by Dr. A. Kaiming Chin, head librarian of the Harvard Yenching Institute...
...collectors who, fleeing Japanese bombs, saved these as their most valuable possessions. Japanese restrictions preventing Chinese citizens from bringing goods out of the country made it impossible for Dr. Chin himself to supervise the books' departure, that job being left to an American associate of his in the Far Eastern Department...
Eventually, however, they will find their way into the immense catalogue of far eastern writings whose preparation Dr. Chin is now supervising. This work, the first of its kind in this country, will consist of 2,600 pages giving a classified index to the 35,000 titles in the Yenching Library. Many copies on cards will be made and sent to libraries and universities all over the country, where they will be an invaluable aid to research students of Oriental culture...
...come back. 14 succeeded, whereas of the House's 38 "Young Turks" (150% New Dealers), 14 were gone. Republican gains were made in 23 States outside of the ''too, too solid" South. In eight farm States their ains were 29 House seats, three Senate. In ten Eastern industrial States they were 44 House seats, four Senate. In five Western States they were eight House seats, one Senate...