Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly everyone is aware, news from the Orient appears much fresher than it really is because of the half day difference in time. Ordinarily U. S. Sunday papers carry Shanghai news dated Monday...
Almost a thousand miles from Manchuria, in the sprawling, river-muddied harbor of Shanghai, greatest port in all the Orient, lay Admiral Koichi Shiosawa with eleven warships. One of them was the newest type of marine terror, the aircraft carrier Kaga, nestling 60 airplanes on her vast weird deck, smoke pouring out from her strange horizontal funnel...
...what extent the present-day undergraduate allows the newspaper writers effectively to spread the doctrines of an impending war depends on the student. It is he who concludes from the pictures of our soldiery on duty in the Orient in 1927, and of massive members of our battle fleet, that war is just around the corner...
...equal propagandist is the conversational scarist, who peddles witticisms of drafts, who describes a feeling of boredom with academic life, and who pictures the great future of adventure and real service that comes with enlistment in an army in the Orient...
...Angeles. President Paul Weeks Litchfield of Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. revealed that the U. S. S. Akron, scheduled to visit Los Angeles in February, will soon thereafter fly to Honolulu, possibly to the Orient...