Word: orientalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which expects to put the clipper into service within a few weeks, hopes to get 19 more of the double-decked, 75-passenger monsters by late summer. With them, said Trippe, he will have "sufficient equipment to provide low-cost tourist-class service to Europe and to the Orient." Foreign governments willing, Trippe would cut transatlantic tourist rates to $225 one way and $405 round trip (present cost...
...through scholarship awards, grants-in-aid, or loans. Second, Radcliffe College has no scholarship funds specially given or designated for any particular category of students, with the exception of those scholarships given for residents of certain towns. We have no funds, for example, specifically allocated for students from the Orient, Latin America, or Europe. The scholarship committee does not find itself able to set up such funds at the present time. Third, the D.P. student will be automatically considered, with other applicants, for scholarship aid, when the committee meets in June, and if her promise warrants, she may well receive...
Wiley, a Springfield resident, graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin last June, where he was editor in chief of the Bowdoin Orient. He plans to study jurisprudence at Oxford...
...China? Yes-but not for the institutionalized missions of the recent past. To make any headway in a China overrun by Communism, missionaries will have to go back to Christian beginnings. So says Journalist Robert Root of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, just back from a tour of the Orient...
...greatest present danger from science-induced increase in population is in the Orient. ". . . Relatively inexpensive health services [have reduced] death from epidemic diseases, even though the level of living . . . rose very little...