Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from New York October 5, 1931, in the S.S. "Resolute" of the Hamburg-American Line, it was announced yesterday at the office of the University Travel Association, 66 Fifth Avenue, New York City. After completing their 234 day study trip to 33 countries in Europe, the Near East, and Orient, the students and professors return in the "Resolute...
...Next October she will set sail for the Orient, member of a commission appointed by a group of potent Protestant laymen to study missions in the Far East. In 1934 (aged 70) she will retire from her presidency. Other mission examiners will be: Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard (chairman); President Clarence Augustus Barbour of Brown University; Dean Frederic Campbell Woodward of the University of Chicago; Dr. William Pierson Merrill of Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church; Professor Rufus Matthew Jones of Haverford College; Dean Henry Spencer Houghton of the University of Iowa College of Medicine; Dean Charles Phillips Emerson...
...Ralph H. Thurber had faltered into the hospital a fortnight ago with a detailed tale of having become infested with flukes while missioning in the Orient (TIME, May 4). He had, said he, but a month to live...
...South, Descendant of Buddha, Supreme Arbiter of the Ebb and Flow of the Tide, Brother of the Moon, Half-Brother of the Sun, Possessor of the Four & Twenty Golden Umbrellas. (Resembling in theory the Pope's triple-tiered tiara, multiple umbrellas are in many parts of the Orient the symbol of regal power...
...companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs of the Orient. Some spoke of him as "ruffian Dick" and "that blackguard Burton," but nobody ever called him a coward or a bore. The East India Company was glad to get rid of such an embarrassingly spectacular servant. Her Majesty's Government grudgingly gave him poor, unimportant consular posts?Fernando Po, Damascus...