Word: oriented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryouts for this year's triangular Harvard-Yale-Princeton debate and for the Coolidge prized will be held on April 18, 21, and 24, the Debating Council announced yesterday. The question for the debate will be "Resolved: That the United States should orient its foreign policy in vigorous opposition to the Fascist powers...
Also out for business, and willing to cut first-class rates to get it, were three Pacific steamship lines, American President, Canadian Pacific and Nippon Yusen Kaisha. Their bid: a round trip from San Francisco to the Orient during April and May for the unprecedented price of a one-way ticket -i.e., $350 to Yokohama...
...given the San Francisco Exposition, if only because of their pictorial value; but nevertheless the colossal island built into the Pacific Ocean does contain other elements of interest. Contribution to the more orthodox art exhibits has been made by Harvard's Fogg Museum, and Langdon Warner, Curator of the Oriental Department, has been made Director of Fine Arts in the Fair's "Division of Pacific Cultures." Just back from a year's travel in the Orient, Mr. Warner has so organized the display of Pacific culture as to bring considerable comment--not only because of its grand scale, but also...
Going on with the history of wrestling, Pat observed that in the 19th century the sport made great progress. "The eastern states in this country took up the Roman style, while the far west, because of its contact with the Orient, adopted the Japanese technique. The Oklahoma wrestlers tried to combine the two, and that is one reason why they put out the finest grapplers in the game...
...worldwide price war, they formed a Tea Marketing Bureau which stabilized the trade until the Government began slapping on increasing duties. This brought an immediate 5% decline in British consumption, though it remains the highest in the world-over five cups a day per person. Then, from the Orient came the most serious threat since China closed her ports 100 years...