Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smaller than California in area, and no less mountainous, lives a population over half the size of the U. S. people. These unfortunates-the Japanese-are like a rush-hour crowd in a subway car, the doors of which have jammed. Fortnight ago Japanese papers loudly warned that the East Indies ought to be an emergency exit; and that Western Powers had better help open the door. Last week Japan's arms implemented the warning...
...routes to China from French Indo-China and British Burma. It was a threat not only to China (which will be dry as a rootless tree if the routes are cut) but also to French and British and indirectly Dutch and U. S. interests in the Far East...
...each nation had to decide whether or not to keep its individual East Indian possessions on the basis of its isolated value to the national economy, the West would doubtless leave the East. But the imperial nations must keep an eye on each other...
...East, Ivy League rooters crowed lustily for Cornell last week. Against Dartmouth, Carl Snavely's boys showed that their early-season victory over Ohio State, mightiest of the mighty Big Ten, was no flash in the pan. Playing as no Cornell team has played since the famed Gil Dobie machines of 1921-22-23, they made a good Dartmouth team look like wooden Indians, scalped them 35-to-6, chalked up their seventh successive victory this season...
...Before me, filling the East and the South of East, there lay a latitude of fog, a world of it, and out of the expanse of vapor there shone a glare this side of the sun, now rising in obscurity; and from the region of this singular light came the crying of the waters...