Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle, Wash., people who used to know and like famed Miss Nancy Anne Miller, now the Maharanee Sharmishthabai Holkar, wife of the ex-Maharaja of Indore (TIME, March 12, 1928), were shocked and indignant last week. They had supposed that she was honorably installed for life in Orient splendor, would never ride out again in anything less than an elephant's jeweled howdhah or a Rolls Royce, would always enjoy a Maharanee's exclusive privilege of wearing golden bracelets on her ankles. They had no sympathy for and viewed with alarm a decision just handed down...
...plan at Yale, will not be a part of the Quad system. Their dormitories will be separate, and students will make their applications for entry into the various Quads at the end of the first year. This is an excellent feature, which will give the undergraduates a chance to orient themselves before deciding which Quad to enter...
...Politically speaking, the Orient is like a jelly-poke one part of it and it all shakes," acknowledged Observer Lodge. But, he suggested, Europe might be benefited if a colonial safety valve were permitted to a certain country with well-known colonizing experience. In short, perhaps it would be wise to sell the Philippines to Germany...
...When M. Moreau came, similar convictions were necessary. In his preservation of the confidence of all the parties, in his resuscitation of their confidence in each other, lay Chairman Young's greatest right to have his name applied to the Reparations plan which was finally adopted. From the Orient, where such things are most highly appreciated came Chairman Young's highest praise, when Delegate Keingo Mori of Japan said: "I could not have conceived, unless I had seen it, of an American having such patience...