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Word: easterner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Jackson Barnett was a simple-minded Creek who got 160 acres in Eastern Oklahoma from the Government in Benjamin Harrison's time and lived to see his land produce 12,000 bbls. of oil a day. So dim-witted that he used to parrot back "Hello. Jack" when he was addressed, Indian Barnett had a guardian to invest his $60,000 monthly income. He lived on $50 a month until Anna Laura Lowe, a white widow, entered his life, began fighting with the Government over his money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Last Stand | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...unmatched by any other 20th Century ruler in material, social, educational accomplishments. Realizing that national prestige paid dividends. President Atatürk, with the driving force of a dictator, built up a modern, mechanized army. That made Turkey sought after by Germany, France and England, as a powerful Near Eastern ally. His Government doubled the country's railroad mileage, started sugar and textile factories, coal and iron industries to make Turkey more self-sufficient. He ordered electrification and reforestation programs and began to build a merchant marine. His policy of "Turkey for the Turks'' largely eliminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Atat | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...southern flight, the geese made news again that thinned out into another mystery: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Eskimos and Indians reported that the geese had almost no young birds with them, although about 50% of the southbound flocks are usually goslings. Possible explanation: The nestlings were struck by an eastern Arctic storm which only the older birds were able to escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Blue Geese | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

PHILADELPHIA (U.P.)--Temple University students have started a campus newsreel, to be issued monthly and believed the first of its kind at an eastern college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Newsreel | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

...February 11, Pennsylvania; February 13, Harvard Water Carnival; February 14, New England Championships at the Boston Y.; February 15, Providence Boys Club; February 18, Navy at Annapolis; February 25, Columbia at New York; March 1, Dartmouth; March 4, Princeton at Princeton; March 11, Yale; March 17 and 18, Eastern Intercollegiate League Championships at New Haven, and March 24 and 25, National Intercollegiate championships at Ann Arbor, Michigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Face 16 Meets for 1938-'39 Season | 11/3/1938 | See Source »

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