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Word: orientating (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacific, he said his company has now only two ships operating to the Orient. On the Atlantic there are only 14 privately owned passenger ships and 22 freighters now operating, aside from those engaged in the island trade?a condition no better than before the war. He asserted that American shippers must combine to remove the discriminating measures, in order to restore the flags of privately owned American Merchantmen to the high seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain Dollar Speaks | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

...latest tennis star to arrive in America seeking the Davis Cup is Masamosuke Fukuda, of the Japanese team. Fukuda, recent graduate of Waseda University, is described as a " sensation" on the courts of the Orient. His euphonious name completes an exotic array of players who will contend in the Davis Cup lists this year. The following are culled from the rosters of the French, Indian and Japanese teams: Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra, Lacoste, Fyzee Ramaswami, Ranga Rao, Jaga, Mohan Lai, Zenzo Shimidzu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Names | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...married a Hollander, an official in the East Indies. To Java she went to preside over a satrap's strange eastern household. She lived there for several years. As a powerful white functionary's wife, she moved as a great person among the potentates of the oriental island. She tells of living as an honored guest in the harem of the Sultan of Solo. The orient entered her spirit. Of course, she studied the strange and subtle music of the Javanese. She returned to the West, to America, and re-began the career that her marriage had broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Detroit | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

...Russia upon such a scheme would be, and are, helpless in revolutionary Russia. The only education which could conceivably be valuable in a period of violent change would be an education which enabled the individual to so far free himself from the immediate prospect as to orient himself and measure tendencies and probabilities. To train for nothing but success in the present business world is to invite intellectual bankruptcy. There were men of the older generation in England who faced the war on Greek literature better than some of their fellow citizens faced it on the soundest economic education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cui Bono? | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...BEACHCOMBER IN THE ORIENT-Harry L. Foster-Dodd, Mead ($3.00). The Beachcomber's wanderings take him through Borneo, Siam, French Indo-China, Japan, the Malay States, the Philippines, under freight cars, and among types seldom met at first-hand in the pages of books. The volume is illustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pirates and Flappers* | 3/24/1923 | See Source »

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