Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northern, southern and western coal operators sat calmly at negotiating tables in West Virginia, apparently willing to wait indefinitely for Lewis to name his terms for a new contract. Lewis had cut output with his "memorial" and "stabilizing" stoppages and the three-day work week; yet he had let his miners dig enough coal to keep them in business...
This time, even John L. seemed to realize that he had gone too far. Leaving the announcement to a lieutenant, he ordered 80,000 Pennsylvania anthracite diggers and his 22,000 U.M.W. miners west of the Mississippi back to the pits this week. So far, the only victims of John 'Lewis' haughty methods were his own miners...
After the observatory moved to better quarters, the house served as residence for a series of professors. One of the first was a minister named Huntington who outraged Unitarian Cambridge by turning Episcopalian. He finally resigned his post and went out west to be the bishop of Central New York. William James moved in 1880, but only for two years...
Umbashed by this setback, Miss Dixon took the turtle to her West Newton home that night and joined him in the bathtub. "He swam and he swam and he swam," Miss Dixon said, recounting the thrill of the event...
...time of last year's Army game at West Point, it was discovered that Harvard tickets allocated by the A.A.A. skirted the 50-yard line, choice seats going to speculators in New York. Rumors sprang up at that time to the effect that the HAA would this year get revenge when Army filed applications here. Lunden yesterday stated emphatically that no such action had been taken, and that Army's allotment is the same as all other visiting colleges will receive...