Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Japan Indo-China Dutch East Indies...
...East Indies the tactics have been almost the same...
...Royal Dutch-Shell goodwill throughout the British and Dutch possessions, Sir Henri has been shouting harsh things about Russian petroleum. That oil comes from wells once owned in part by British investors but now confiscated by the Soviet. Standard Oil has been buying it to sell in the East, where it has few wells, but where Royal Dutch-Shell has many. It is more profitable to Standard Oil to ship petroleum from Russia to India than from California to India. Sir Henri, therefore, has been crying loudly that Russian oil is "stolen" and that Standard Oil should be contemned...
Harvard man hero, you feel she does it because she, like Dorrie, had a longing for and a misconception of the East and its people. Dorrie, to be sure, is perhaps the kind of girl who would be pleased if someone called her a dreamer of dreams. But so, almost certainly, is Author Powell; and it is very pleasant, now, when most first-novelists are either rabid and wild-eyed sophisticates or intellectual inverts with empty heads, to read what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture...
World's records mean nothing when Californians get together. Even Saturday's inclemency could not prevent three perfectly good marks from falling at the hands of the Westerners. Most renowned of sprinters, Charlie Paddock once more outdid himself, and doubtless smiled a bit as he showed the effete East why the headlines ungrammatically proclaim him as "the world's fastest human...