Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...display is to show how the horse as an art form was treated in widely varying ways in the East from the Han period and in the West from early classical days down to the present day. In the Eastern group the works are predominantly statues, although there are also numerous tapestries, parchment drawings, and minute carvings on ivory. The objects are for the most part unnaturalistic and in all sorts of grotesque forms, reflecting the ideas of primitive...
...entrance to Memorial Hall will be at the south door; the exit at the north door. The entrance to the Gymnasium will be at the eastern to the Gymnasium will be at the eastern gate on Kirkland street; the exits at the western gate on Kirkland street and on Holmes place...
...Teheran over Iraq's slow railroads and Iran's slower, often impassable dirt mountain roads. Better still, they had missed having to put up for a night in one of Iran's insect-ridden rest houses. What the plane's arrival meant to Middle Eastern diplomats, however, was that the German-controlled Lufthansa had just won a significant battle with British Imperial Airways over flying concessions...
...Interstate Commerce Commission by a vote of 6-to-5 refused to allow the Eastern roads to raise their basic passenger fares from 2? to 2½? a mile...
Three facts convinced him, he went on, that he liked America. First, he was used to the country; second, he particularly was fond of New England and the eastern strip of New York. Concerning the people in this section, he said, "I do not like all the people but many of them." Third, he had a nice home with electricity and running water. "The R. P. I. sent me out to pasture and I did rather well," he said, commenting on his dismissal from Rensselaer Institute. All this he boiled down to the single fact that he was having...