Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hundreds of earthquakes visit the Island Empire of the East each year. Last week, came one that destroyed Toyooka and Tsuiyama, damaged the famous Kinosaki Springs, injured hundreds of people. Fire quickly spread to add its horror to the picture of Nature's desolation. The Province of Tajima lies to the northeast of Osaka on the main island of Hondo. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was felt some 80 miles from Osaka, which is situate on the south shore. Seismographs recorded horizontal vibrations measuring nearly three inches and lasting several minutes. Experts declared the shock the greatest...
...Baker's obvious interest in disposing of either of them would seem to consist in turning them over to the N. Y. Central. While the Interstate Commerce Commission debates the Nickel Plate case, two sides are said to be forming in regard to railway mergers in the East. The first consists of the First National Bank (Air. Baker) and allied interests (J. P. Morgan & Co.), the N. Y. Central and the Nickel Plate crowd; the second, of the Pennsylvania, Delaware & Hudson, Wabash and affiliated interests, including Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Thus it is within the possibilities that another duel between...
These are undoubtedly the universities which will figure most prominently in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet. Yale, who won last year's corresponding event at the Stadium, is favored by many who believe the crown will remain in the East. The University of California delegation arrived in Philadelphia 18 strong last Tuesday to get in shape for the meet. If it wins it will have four legs on the trophy cup, tieing Cornell...
...Outside the Church, hundreds of people knew that the great moment of the ceremony had arrived. Silver bugles were sounded from the dome of the Church. Their clarion notes cut the still air with peculiar sweetness. A few seconds later, from the north, south, east and west, the bells of Rome's 400 churches tolled their...
...East Room of the White House, with Cabinet officers, General Pershing and other notables standing by, the President distributed appropriate lauds and shiny Roosevelt Memorial Medals to Miss Martha Berry, Gifford Pinchot and George Bird Grinnell (see EDUCATION...