Word: easts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saturday's finals, none of Hal Ulen's varsity contrived a point. Yale dominated the meet all the way, and although all scoring is on an individual basis, unofficial tabulation makes the Blue squad the East's best...
Swedish-born Tage Bolander, who spends much of his time traveling about Europe on TLI business, is concerned, of course, with TIME's Atlantic edition, printed in Paris for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. As you may recall from my February 28th Letter, Atlantic is one of TIME's four International editions whose 260,000 weekly copies go to a million readers in 180 countries and possessions overseas. Each carries advertising directed to its particular markets...
...paid much attention to Boyd's unhappy situation. But last week everyone sat up. Without warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured in the calendar year, 1948, during Boyd's incumbency of his usurped office . . . Concurrently," ordered Lewis, "the mine workers will pray for relief . . . [and the ousting] of an ignorant and incompetent Boyd." The mourning period put out of work an additional 69,000 employees of coal-carrying eastern railways...
...ancient aristocracy of India, the original settlers of this country, the most democratic element in the land are everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east central India, they roared in approval, "Jarkhand sadari [Separate Jarkhand]." A tribeswoman who works as a steel-mill laborer cried: "They are the people of the plains, and we are kings of the jungle...
...Western world, not by the all too cheap denials in which the fear of the West is now expressing itself. Nor can I confess allegiance to ... [the] 'Christian West'; rather I think that the locus of Christianity is to be sought above today's conflict between East and West...