Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again Harold Lamb invokes the pageantry of the Mediaeval Orient and tells the history of a great movement of human beings drawn across the world by the power of an idea. He has restored to life the most significant and dramatic moment in human history, that brief moment when all our ancestors of all ranks and degrees were aroused by an unworldly exaltation...
...Vacuum concentrates on lubricating oil (Gargoyle, Mobil oil), Standard of New York on gasoline (Socony) Abroad, Vacuum markets gasoline and kerosene in Egypt, parts of Europe, Africa, and Australasia, while noncompetitive Standard of New York does the same thing in the Near East, India, Aden, and the Orient...
...Dickinson Hall, latest of Princeton's overnight architectural feats, most of the classrooms and administrative offices will be housed. Undergraduates will be required to take certain preliminary courses in Sophomore year to orient them for their upperclass studies, which will be fully under the guidance of the School. Graduate courses will be provided. Operating in conjunction with the new School is the recently endowed Bureau of International Finance, under the direction of famed Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose succoring of commercially sick nations has taken him to Chile, Colombia, Bolivia. Ecuador, Poland, South Africa...
...except when speaking of the late great Author Henry James), he admires those who do, writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September he married Miss Kate Smith of Chicago: they are now abroad. Other books: One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers, Orient Express, Manhattan Transfer, Rosinante to the Road Again, A Pushcart at the Curb; The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc. (plays...
Appointed. Sir William Peel, 55, career administrator and adviser since 1897 in British Malaya (Penang, Singapore, Kedah, etc.); to be Governor of Hongkong, important British naval station and trade mart in the Orient (average annual trade $500,000,000). Sir William succeeds to the post and salary ($30,000) of Sir Cecil Clementi, promoted Governor of the Straits Settlements...