Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young was born in England and went to the University of Birmingham, where he studied for the medical profession. After he took his degree he sailed for several years through the East as a ship's surgeon, gathering experiences and ideas for the books which he later wrote...
...outbreak of the Great War he obtained a commission in the medical service and spent three years fighting in the tropical climate of South and East Africa. During his stay there he contracted malaria and found after the war that he was unable to live in England because of the climate and unable to continue his medical work because it was too great a strain. As a consequence of this he retired to the island of Capri in the Bay of Naples in 1918, where he has been studying and writing since...
...EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE-Felix Riesenberg - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Epical treatment of Manhattan, isle of psychlones...
...Seven are the authors of all human woe. They are in the sky and the abyss; they rise in the west, they loom in the east; their immensity fills heaven and earth; they grind men as men grind grain...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...