Word: eastward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flames Crept Eastward...
...fire was first discovered after it had eaten its way through a portion of the roof on the southern side of the building. For over half an hour the flames crept eastward, practically destroying that end of the roof. The office of the Department of Economics, which is directly beneath the burned portion of the roof, was very badly damaged by water. Fortunately all the valuable documents, including three sole copies of Ph.D. theses, were rescued in time. A good deal of the wall had to be torn down in an endeavor to trace the source of the fire...
...office, but he has a real temporal as well as spiritual power of personality and of scholarship which has been felt throughout a considerable stretch of the earth almost as wide as the reach of his Viking forebears, who penetrated not only westward to the edges of America but eastward and southward to the further shores of the Euxine...
Visiting critics, dramatic and sporting, acted as though they had seen the Moscow Art Theatre. Columns of frenzied adjectives flashed eastward. For two weeks the adjectives knocked around the managers' offices. Suddenly they penetrated three heads at once. Almost simultaneously Florenz Ziegfeld, Lee Shubert and Irving Berlin started burning the Western wires with gold-leaf offers for Patricia's pilgrimage to Broadway...
...left Peking under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, the well-known naturalist and explorer. It will prospect for six months the treasures of the Gobi Desert and Inner Mongolia, known to be rich in fossil flora and fauna, including mastodons and mammoths, which are believed to have wandered eastward from their source in central Asia. Popular expectations with regard to the " missing link " of human evolution and the site of the "Garden of Eden" are hardly likely to be realized, however...