Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Despite the numerous species of poisonous snakes in North and South America, there is now an antivenin for every kind of snake poison in the western hemisphere," stated Dr. Afranio do Amaral, noted ophiologist and director of the Instituto Butantan at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in an interview yesterday...
When asked "What's south of Mexico?" few U. S. citizens are smart enough to reply, "Guatemala." Last week, President Lazaro Chacon had to declare martial law, because one Col. Fernando Morales Jr. had suddenly fomented a revolt in Western Guatemala, and seized the city of Mazatenango...
...Turkey, kinetic President Mustafa Kemal holds that intellectual progress depends solely upon quick assimilation of Western ideas...
...Germany, Oswald Spengler lucubrates that Western civilization, now toppling over a wave crest, declines by morphological...
...acquisition of the plant completes the crescent of Harvard's frontage on the Charles from Boylston street to Western Avenue on both sides of the river. The Western end of the crescent will be closed according to the official statement, by a new House to be built on the site of the power plant, adjacent to Smith Halls. But the development of the remainder of the Cambridge side of the river, below McKinlock Hall, must be governed by its remoteness from the greater part of the University. To build more Houses here for College undergraduates would be impractical considering...