Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they fought, ten and one-half hours more. Within full sight of the headland called Punta del Este, where Uruguayans gathered in crowds as if to watch a pelota match, Ajax and Achilles craftily slipped around Spee inshore of her, leaving the enemy silhouetted in the east by the reflected light of the setting sun, themselves under shore's gloom. Just before dark there were two sharp clashes, and it was evidently in one of those that Spee suffered a final disaster: A hit at the forefoot, at bow and waterline, so that as she went through...
...Tolvajärvi, where Finland bulges into Russian East Karelia, the Finns fought a three-day battle in which they reported that two Russian regiments were "almost entirely destroyed." The Finnish communique added that "our troops are following the retreating enemy," and unofficial reports had it that they had chased Stalin's cannon fodder back into Russia and were striking toward the Leningrad-Murmansk railway, Russia's main supply line to its whole northern front...
Died. Dr. William Irving Sirovich, 57, New York's eloquent, dressy, perpetually carnationed Congressman from the Lower East Side; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Tightlipped, hard-plugging John Grant Kelly, publisher of the Walla Walla Union Bulletin, did something about it. He started an experimental canning plant (Walla Walla Canning Co.) to can the region's produce, ship it to big markets in the East...
Fortnight ago Walla Wallans gave a party for Publisher Kelly, now president and chief stockholder. On a month's vacation last fall Mr. Kelly went East, called at the head offices of the big can companies, finally made a deal with Continental...