Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took place between Carlinville and Taylorville, lining the pockets of players from Notre Dame and the University of Illinois. Yet still there is no occasion for the attitude pharisaical. No one can be quite sure what would have happened if professional football had flourished among the cities of the seaboard, rousing instincts of civic pride and personal gain. Nor have the temptations of the Middle West been sordid merely. There is that matter of stadiums. No college which is truly up and doing can be quite satisfied with the athletic glory that was Greece until it is appropriately encompassed...
There are three salient features to the Colombian petroleum industry: first, the marked predominance, amounting almost to monopoly, of American capital in that field; secondly, the difficulty of access from the seaboard to the richer deposits, necessitating excessive costs of pipe line construction and drilling, which are nearly double those for corresponding work in this country and Mexico; thirdly, the legal status of the industry was radically changed in November and December, 1919, when a decree of the Colombian Supreme Court, followed by a new petroleum code, put an end to various government owner ships and "nationalization" schemes and removed...
...result. The conference, although its effect is not visible, in any tangible form, contributed largely to intersectional and interinstitutional understanding. The student delegates from Illinois and other great state universities had an unprecedented opportunity to meet men fully representative of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, M. I. T., and other seaboard institutions. Men from the cast were afforded a chance to discuss matters of common interest with visitors from the middle-west and south. It was a time for the removal of many misapprehensions; the more so because the meeting was not one of rivalry, as is the case at East-West...
...population not equal to that of New York city. Our greatest danger is our unpeopled interior. We are in this respect in a position practically of that of the United States in the War of the Revolution. The bulk of our population is, as yours was, on the eastern seaboard. Australia therefore, welcomes immigrants wherever they may come from. We hope to fulfill the late Colonel Roosevelt's wise suggestion and 'fill up our waste spaces...
...this reason many parents throughout the western and southern states thought it best to send their boys to one or other of the older institutions in the East. But the difference in equipment and in scholastic standards is no longer very marked; yet the endowed institutions along the Atlantic seaboard, Harvard in particular, continue to draw from these western and southern areas just as many recruits as ever...