Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Free City of Danzig, which is joined to Poland by a corridor through East Prussia, and which is shepherded by the League of Nations, a postal war was fought last week in novel hues...
...area of the Netherlands is 12,761 square miles (about three times the size of Connecticut), its population 7,029,881. The Dutch Empire in the East Indies is 832,473 square miles (one-third the size of the U. S.) in extent and has a population...
Then Prof. Michelson proceeded to describe an experiment which has been in progress for some months on a prairie just west of Chicago (TIME, Aug. 11). There a rectangle of 12-inch pipe, almost a mile in perimeter, was laid down. Its greater dimension extends from east to west. This pipe was sealed and the air exhausted. Mirrors were placed in the corners so that a beam of light would be reflected completely around it. In one corner an arc light was placed, the beams of which, split by mirrors, were reflected around the rectangle in opposite directions...
Japan is becoming a bilingual country. The importation of English words to name American sport, business, engineering, and education has, however, not been accompanied by a corresponding achievement to English sounds. The teaching of English from the sixth grade onwards, usually by Japanese, develops in the sons of the East a third-hand language, whose characters, at least, are identical with those of English. This situation, as some reformers intend, is to be changed completely...
...Young, Chief Division Economic Adviser of the Department of State, will address the conference on "The Department of State and American Foreign Trade and Investment" at 10.15 o'clock. Immediately following this talk, Dr. Stanley K. Hornbeck, a lecturer at the University on the History of the Far East will speak on "Constant and Variable Factors of Far Eastern Relations". Dr. Hornbeck is the author of "Contemporary Politics in the Far East", and of numerous articles on current events in that part of the world...