Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kings and queens and bishops from the Occident, the Orient, and even the South Seas will rule over the Semitic Museum beginning this week, as one of the finest collections of chessmen in the world opens to public display...
...recognition of the growing interest and importance of the Orient in world affairs, Serge Elisseeff, director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and Professor of Far Eastern Languages has proposed to the Corporation that an entire new division, the Division of Far Eastern Languages, be established...
...department, it will be possible for men to obtain advanced degrees, and to follow a plan of graduate study in those departments. It is partly to allow this, partly because it is felt that the history of the next few years will demonstrate the necessity of study of the Orient, that the new Division was proposed...
...commandeer a British warship in an emergency. At the present time there are only three King's Messengers: Major Custance, Lieut. Colonel Porter, and Acting Messenger Wilton. Week after week, they take a number of red morocco boxes filled with diplomatic documents to Paris, where they board the Orient Express to Istanbul and Cairo. On the out trip they drop off boxes at Lausanne (for Geneva), Milan (for Rome), Budapest, Bucharest, Belgrade, Athens, pick up others at the same points on their way home. No King's Messenger is necessary for Washington since Britain's diplomatic documents...
Dream tours have been a stock joke in Philadelphia for years. Stokowski has talked of taking the Philadelphia Orchestra to Europe, South America, the Orient. One reason for his tiff with his directors last season was their failure to see their way clear to financing a tour while there was a considerable deficit at home (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934 et seq.). The angel that suddenly popped up was RCA Victor, for which Stokowski and his orchestra make many a red-seal phonograph record. RCA Victor underwrote the current tour for $250,000, hoping to get back much...