Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with pneumonia at Managua, missed the Hoover party but was cheered by reports that the President-Elect seemed impressed with the necessity for another canal...
...Britten's "amazing indiscretion." They tartly accused him of publicity-seeking. They said he was trying to show off because he had just become chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee. They reminded people that he was the Congressman who wangled the Army-Navy football game out of the East and onto Soldier Field, Chicago, two years ago-a "publicity stunt" if ever there was one. Moreover Mr. Britten had been notoriously a Big Navy man. His volte face could only be meant as a grandstand play. The political pundits on the sidelines blushed for their country...
Last week the "jiggle" was a boiling, foaming wake wave, and from the Enterprise's short, rakishly tilted funnels spewed enough smoke and steam at roaring forced draft to perceptibly darken the "blue." Behind lay British East Africa and the small, busy port of Dar-Es-Saalam, where Edward of Wales had taken ship. Ahead, beyond the Red Sea, beyond the Mediterranean, beyond Europe and the Channel lay the beloved Sovereign of an Empire. Radio flashes told that pleurisy had been followed by pneumonia, complicated by Bright's disease...
Geographically it is interesting that Santiago. Chile, on the West Coast of South America, is due south of Boston, on the East Coast of North America. In other words the whole South American Continent lies thousands of miles farther East than most U. S. citizens would guess...
Before other news-sheets had inscribed their scroll, the Oregon Aggies (School of, Agriculture) came east last week to play N. Y. U. and Stanford came east, like a troupe of gay and warlike hoboes, to play the Army...