Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another Spaniard, Cordoba, touched the east coast of Yucatan, near Cape Catoche and Mujeres Island and saw "a large town standing back from the coast about two leagues . . .and . . idols. . .nearly all of them with figures of tall women, so that we called the place the Punta de Mugeres" (Women's Point). Juan de Grijalva a year later sailed from Cuba to the Island of Cozumel. After claiming that land for his sovereign with the usual blithe arrogance of his age, Grijalva crossed to the visible eastern shore of Yucatan, where his historian describes sighting "three large towns separated from...
Geographers noted that what was once the Empire of the Romanovs and what is now the U. S. S. R. are indeed two quite different areas. In the West the Baltic countries from Poland to Finland have split off; in the Near East the Transcaucasian Federation of Soviet Republics (Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan) have been created and linked with the other Socialist Soviet Republics which signed the treaty of union at Moscow...
...Welfare Island (off Manhattan), one Rev. Joseph J. McGowan saw a victim of sleeping sickness, one Amiel Schul, jump into the East River. The priest gave his spectacles to a young man who volunteered to guard them, tore off his overcoat, leaped into the water, saved the life of the gurgitating Schul. On shore, surrounded by congratulators, he looked around for his glasses. They had been stolen...
...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...
Professor Earle, who was formerly Professor of History at Columbia University, is one of the youngest authoritative students in this country of the Near East. He has spent several months during the last two years in the Asia Minor countries and is thoroughly acquainted with the situation...