Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...India," he continued, "is one of the first objectives of the Bolshevist campaign. The East is the main endeavor of the world revolution, English Imperialism is aimed at. The object is to create a Communist party here, with the assistance of Communists outside, to stir up trouble throughout our Eastern empire and to stir up trouble in labor policy in this country...
...These steps can clearly be seen in travelling from the far East to the West as I intend to do on my trip next fall. By visiting all the countries on my itinerary, we shall obtain a concept of the swing of evolution. Opportunity will be given to study the lower forms of animal life, in the case of birds from the cassowary to the bustard, and in the case of mammals from marsupials to elephants and domestic animals, and in the case of humans from the Papuan, with his simple tribal government to the more complex man farther North...
...Hopkins, Lehigh, and Stevens until about 1905, when an entirely new league was formed with Columbia, Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania, Stevens, Swarthmore, Cornell and the University. Since then interest in lacrosse has increased by leaps and bounds. Today there are approximately 40 universities and colleges playing it in the East. The University, as the first American institution to take up the game has always been high up in the league standing. In Canada, the original home of lacrosse, there are more than 300 teams which play regular schedules and in England there are more than 400 regularly equipped teams playing...
This is all highly gratifying. We had feared out this way that the eastern fountains of learning were drying up. We had harbored the suspicion that youth in the east was, if not dead, at least pale and specter-thin. We saw decadence where once had been virility. We remembered recent intersectional games and we thought that down east they had too much blue blood and not enough...
...were wrong. We sold youth short. Their football players down east may not amount to much but when it comes to fighting, editors they are supreme. --Chicago Tribune...