Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Western Electric Co. (manufacturing subsidiary whose divorce from the parent A. T. & T. is often rumored, never confirmed), $22,023,282 as against...
...debate held in Holden Chapel last night J. K. Hurd '30 and H. A. Wolff '29 together with George Peck of Western, Reserve University, who were supporting the negative side of the proposition: "Resolved, That the principle of complete freedom of speech on political and economic grounds is sound" won a judge's decision, rendered by W. J. Butler 2L, over Alan Green and Arthur Fiske of the Cleveland institution, who had as their colleague A. L. Raffa ocC. The audience, however, favored the affirmative orators by a 4 to 2 score...
...also another purpose: to establish in Europe or in the U.S. a Buddhist Institute. In Paris a grant of land has already been given him. But Tai Hsu has not yet accepted. The Institute's purpose will be to clarify Buddhism to the Western world, to represent Buddhism as a religion nowhere antagonistic to scientific theories...
Familiar even to Western minds is the endlessly-turning Buddhist wheel-of-life. The wheel represents the cycle of conception, life, death, ascent to a higher plane (or descent to a lower); then reincarnation; and then, again, conception, life, death, ascent...
Hockenbeamer. More characteristically, western, perhaps, is August Hockenbeamer, president of Pacific Gas & Electric. A onetime newspaper boy, his commercial career includes a period of collecting bad bills for a book store and of filling lamps in Pennsylvania R. R. offices. Mr. Hockenbeamer works incessantly, golfs indifferently, smokes continually (large, strong cigars). He was an originator of the idea that the general public should be invited to hold stocks in utilities. In 1914 Pacific Gas & Electric had 3,000 stockholders. It has some 50,000 today...