Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street, the three Chicago youths entered their car. "Texas," following drunkenly, got into the wrong automobile by mistake. Two policemen dashed up. Dazed, he began to fire. One of them shot him through the heart. Three half-drunken robbers in a light green car sped east along Lake Shore Drive, turned south with the shoreline, then west to Michigan Avenue, then north again past the hotel with a burst of speed, having completely circled the scene of their crime. Lincoln Park policemen on the running boards of commandeered automobiles followed, volleying. Up the "Gold Coast," with pretentious residences...
...most of the past week a sirocco (hot, dry, enervating east wind) swept the battlefront where French and Riffians fight for supremacy in the Moroccan War (TIME, May 11, et seq.). Fighting slackened and what was done ended in success for the Riffians, proving that the French successes of the previous week had in no sense discouraged or reduced the resistance of their enemies. A number of tribal desertions to the Riffians was also reported. Marshal Petain, his face bronzed by the African sun, landed at Ceuta, en route to Paris from the front (TIME, Aug. 3) conversed long...
...Hamba," shouted one and "Hamba," cried another-which being translated from the Russsian means "Shame." A foreign mob pressed in from the East one rainy day last week, tossed cattlewise upon 97th St., Manhattan, sprawled upon the upper calm of Fifth Avenue by the Park. "Hamba. Hamba...
...three searches, they had not found the "plains and meadows" of sargassum weed commonly reported as forming the Sargasso Sea (TIME, July 20) east of the West Indies. Small, shallow patches of the weed were encountered, and these teemed with marine life. "The Humboldt "Current is gone . . . is extinct.''* Nowhere had they encountered the sweep of icy water that flows up along the west coast of South America from the Antarctic. Volcanic disturbances, earthquakes, were blamed for some vast change in Pacific bathygraphy...
...expenditure of $10,000,000 to build the Lakehurst hangars, may be reluctant to spend as much more to build new ones in San Diego; 3) that things other than weather affect the location of airports; if dirigibles have a military value, they are needed in the financial East-a district which would be a conspicuous enemy objective in wartime; 4) that good weather and war do not necessarily go hand-in-hand. If the dirigibles are to be of use in war, they need "practice" in bad and mediocre weather...