Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Around the corner from him was a public school, but it was for white children; Bunche had to send his two daughters to a Negro school nearly three miles away. There were other complications. Item: last March the fashionable Wardman Park Hotel refused a meeting room to the Middle East Institute when it learned that Bunche was scheduled to speak...
...Maximum. The different planes from which West and East looked down on Germany became more evident as the week wore on. The courtesy wilted steadily. By Thursday night the talks had reached the level of restrained acerbity. The three Western powers were asking Russia to quit stalling and tell precisely what it wanted out of the conference that it had requested as a condition for lifting the Berlin blockade. Vishinsky was snapping back that no one could "impose" on him any topics of discussion...
...crews seem as dependable these days as final exams in June. This year Tom Bolles has manufactured--with the aid of some extraordinary oarsmen--two boats which have swept every regatta with little trouble. In the course of the season, the Crimson has beaten every major college in the East and has left no doubts as to its pre-eminence...
...congratulated. They stand an excellent chance of defeating Yale over the four-mile course at New London and thus finish the year undefeated. But even if they do this, they will not have met the toughest competition available: the fine western crews which will make their only east-coast appearance at Poughkeepsie the day after the Yale regatta...
There was nothing really wrong with twelve-year-old Queens College. It had a tree-lined 52-acre campus across the East River from Manhattan, an able faculty of 225, some 3,000 students and no real worries about raising money. Since it was one of the four independent branches of the College of the City of New York,* it could count on handsome support from the taxpayers. Queens College's only real trouble was that for more than a year-ever since Dr. Paul Klapper resigned-it had not been able to find a president...