Word: easts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With reference to the terrifying argument between Sidney Henderson, of Chicago, and Catherine M. Whitsitt, of some point farther east (last referred to in TIME, May 7), permit me to remark that President Roosevelt did make an airplane flight...
...Soldiers Field track and turf invariably produce as stern and thrilling competition as may be found in any of the country's great athletic meets. Star performers of more than forty colleges from the University of Southern California in the south-west to Dartmouth in the north-east give assurance of serious assault on existing records; the great variety of competitors, many of whom have never faced each other before, make upsets and hair breadth finishes a foregone conclusion...
...Japanese players come to Cambridge with a fine record which includes victories over a number of strong teams all over the country. They number among their victims Leaned Stanford, Georgetown, and the Brooklyn Bushwicks, one of the leading semi-pro teams of the East...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, with its efficiently equipped laboratories and hospitals on the west bank of the East River, Manhattan, has contributed to science many a life-saving discovery: curative sera for one of the fatal forms of pneumonia and for epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis; the microbes causing infantile paralysis and yellow fever; the Carrel-Dakin method of treating infected wounds...
...course, imagine that our flight was more than a first tottering step toward establishing commercial transoceanic air service, but we did prove that a West-to-East flight was possible. We gained much valuable experience, however, especially concerning the magnetic fields over Labrador, where our compass responses were exceedingly eccentric...