Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Collector of Internal Revenue for western Kentucky...
...over before trying to do this. Marshal Feng also realized that the Kwangsi rebellion was not occupying quite so many Nationalist troops as he had expected, that Chiang had over 250,000 troops to oppose his 150,000, that Chiang was making every effort to ally himself with the western Mohammedan war lords, Feng's oldest and most effective enemies...
...became the "Big Nine" last week when members of the Great Western Athletic Conference ousted the University of Iowa on charges of professional athletics. The "Big Ten" used to be Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Chicago, Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Ohio State. Iowa, stunned, waited further developments, threatened exposure of professionalism in other "Big Ten" universities...
Yale beat them 8 to 2 early in April, while Holy Cross trampled them under an 11 to 3 score. The diamond forces from Washington did, however, a month ago slug their way to an imposing 19 to 2 victory over Western Maryland. Little as can be inferred from comparative scores, it is interesting to note that Providence College, which has three times this year defeated the Brown outfit that appeared here Saturday, had some difficulty in eking out a 4 to 2 win over Georgetown...
...supposed to have sent the horse? That is the question which President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians was trying to answer at the Federation's convention in Denver this week. An unemployment crisis, now acute, started in 1926 when Warner Bros., as licensee of Western Electric Co., introduced to Manhattan audiences the Vitaphone. In 1927, Fox Film Corp. gave its first public demonstration of Movietone. Today, approximately 2,000 theatres throughout the land have been wired for sound picture showing...