Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Booth had cut short a world tour, hastened from the Orient to London. Soon Commissioner Mapp took to his bed with high blood pressure, and his superior caused it to be announced that he was taking an extended furlough because of ill health. Commissioner Mapp, however, as if calling a bluff, demanded, under Army rules, a hearing before a secret court of inquiry. The five-officer court unanimously convicted Commissioner Mapp of whatever charges General Booth had brought against him. and gossips said that those charges involved "a woman." Indignant Commissioner Mapp announced he would sue for defamation...
...scholarship plan, put into effect two years ago, has aided in opening the university up for Americans. On returning after three years in the Orient, Harvard men are allowed to resume study in their respective classes, receiving credit for the work done abroad at Lingnan University towards their degrees...
Last week, with the end of the two-year period only two weeks away, the women held their plebiscite, settled their suffrage question once & for all. With more than 100,000 votes to spare, they became the first females in the Orient to hoist themselves to political parity with their menfolk...
...suffered from "rapid heart rate, enlarged heart, shortness of breath, attacks of asthma." Their skins were usually warm and red. These people were "especially prone to develop broncho-pneumonia." They suffered, the Boston doctors decided with astonishment, from beriberi, a disease due to malnutrition. It is common in the Orient, especially in Java, had never before been recognized in the U. S. Cure: vitamin...
...Keith. One of the first packers to experiment with egg freezing, Keith sent Ovson to China to open an egg-freezing plant in competition with time-honored Chinese methods of preservation.* The Ovson plant in Shanghai, now owned by Borden's, is the largest in the Orient. Ovson and Keith later went into partnership in the O. K. Egg Co. of Chicago, of which the present company is an outgrowth...