Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate floor were so many people Boris couldn't count them all. The Senators were packed on the east side, the Congressmen on the west. Round and about were Ambassadors, Cabinet members, Generals, Admirals, everybody who could squeeze in. The cutaway was standard gear except for the military officers and foreign representatives who vied to outglitter one another with gold and brass...
...Harvard, 2; Michigan, 2; Yale, Pittsburgh, Coe, Minnesota, Stanford, one each). Three pegs have done military service. One peg is immensely rich; two pegs are rich; the rest, well-to-do. The pegs' geographical centre is further west than in any previous cabinet-Far West, 1; Midwest, 5: East, 3; New England...
...twin revolutions occurred respectively A) In the great gulf port of Vera Cruz State of Vera Cruz, 200 miles east of Mexico City and B) In Nogales, State of Sonora, famed drink & divorce boomtown on the U. S. Border, 1,000 miles northwest of Mexico City...
...Navy has always had one of the strongest fencing aggregations in the East, and this year's team is no exception. They are expected to offer the strongest kind of opposition to the Crimson team...
...typewriter was built in China by the Commercial Press, the largest printing establishment in the far East. It is the result of steady improvement since its invention in 1919, though it is not yet entirely efficient. A capable operator can write at the rate of 1000 characters an hour, which seems slow in comparison with the speed of an American machine. This is, however, twice the speed with which one can print Chinese by hand. Furthermore, it is a greater speed than one thinks, because most Chinese words consist of only one or two characters, whereas English words consist...