Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Women from the East, women from the West, women from England, one from Holland gathered at Forest Hills, Long Island, with tennis rackets under their tanned trained arms. They gathered to determine who is the best player in the U. S. Most of them felt that Helen Wills was the best, with the others ranked in fairly predictable groups behind her. Matters went as expected through the early rounds. Miss Wills won, Mrs. Molla Mallory won, all the visiting Englishwomen won except Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfree who defaulted to save herself for doubles...
Hours later came a vagrant radio report, unconfirmed, that Flyer Redfern had been sighted by a steamer 300 miles east of the Bahama Islands, on his course and about 500 miles out. After that, silence...
...girls, who put their arms around one another's backs and giggled. They said he should come over some night when there was a dance. He said, "I'd like to." He surveyed the golf course and stated that he had been playing that game in the East lately, with Russell Wood of the U. S. Secret Service...
...interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that of archaeologists. Petra is a historical mystery. It was the capital of the plundering Nabataeans whose domain, in 100 B. C., stretched from Damascus on the north to Gaza on the west, through Palestine and east into the Arabian Desert. Some unrecorded tragedy wiped out the Nabataeans and made their city shunned by Arabs. The location was lost to European science until a German explorer found it again in 1812. . . . British Museum savants, aided now by their country's protectorate in Palestine, were first...
Some 400 miles east of Aden, on the coast of the Arabian Sea, a Commander Crauford of the British Navy found, he said, the lost city of Ophir, whence Solomon's navy fetched home 450 talents of gold? II CHRONICLES VIII...