Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Ritchie's words did not go unattacked. Governess Ross of Wyoming, Governor Trinkle of Virginia, Governor Whitfield of Mississippi protested, saying highways were the concern of the nation as a whole, that the East got much of its taxable wealth from the West...
Colonies for lepers are many. In India alone there are 8,850 lepers and 92 asylums. Just inside the East gate of Canton live 1,400 grey men; more lodge at Hokchiang, at Purulia; there is a famed colony at Molokai, Hawaii; an even more elaborate one on the island of Culion, Philippines, established by the U. S. at great expense in 1906; where the lepers have their own stores, theatres and a special kind of currency...
...sailed out of the Mersey bearing Grettir Algarsson of Victoria, B. C, the rash young man who planned to fly over the North Pole in a small dirigible and only abandoned the plan when his air-ship's construction was delayed. The Iceland was bound for Gilles Land (east of Spitsbergen) where Mr. Algarsson proposed to do geological surveying. He will then attempt to go (by boat, sled and foot) "further north than any expedition this year," not excluding Amundsen's and MacMillan...
...long run, as in the case of the Brazilian coffee monopoly, the rubber syndicate will probably defeat itself by encouraging tremendous new production, especially in the Dutch East Indies and the Para and Upper Amazon portions of Brazil. But it takes several years to bring rubber trees to bearing age, and meanwhile the British rubber growers will "sit pretty...
Intercollegiates. The East dropped its jaw?and a title it had kept since 1897. At the Montclair, N.J., Golf Club, trouble brewed in the U.S. Intercollegiate Championship when Lauren Upson, University of California ousted defending champion Dexter Cummings, Yale. Trouble effervesced as two sectional college champions?A. Jack Westland, a tidy little golfer from the University of Washington, and squat, blond G. Fred Lamprecht, Tulane?cut their way to the finals. In the title match, Westland clung close to par. Lamprecht would have none of it. He cracked out three consecutive 34-5, the first two of which shaved...