Word: western
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japanese trip from which I have just returned was in part the result of an offer by the New Imperial Institute of Research of Japan to the Fogg Art Museum to cooperate in investigations of early Western and Eastern art," stated Professor Langdon Warner '03, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. Professor Warner has made numerous trips of exploration and excavation in central China and Thibet in search of remains of Maya civilization and has just gotten back from a visit in Japan...
...brilliant exposition for western minds of the lives and teachings of the philosophers of the East; their practical significance and their poetry; the amazing ramifications of their wisdom in science, art and the business of living...
...Colonial Air Transport, Western Airways, Canadian-Colonial Western Airways. Also, he is president of the American Hotels Corp...
...Island Plant." but will bear the name of James Hay Reed. Most watchers, city-conscious, remembered smart James Hay Reed as the Pittsburgh lawyer behind the formation of the U. S. Steel Corp. Young Reed had learned his law in two good schools. As a graduate of the Western University of Pennsylvania (now University of Pittsburgh), he had gone first to the office of his lawyer uncle, famed David Reed of Pittsburgh. Five years of study and he was ready, in 1877, to form a partnership with Philander C. Knox, later U. S. Senator, later Secretary of State...
...Manhattan-Wilmington miles of track will be the longest railroad electrification unit in the country. The St. Paul. whose partial electrification contributed most to that road's bankruptcy three years ago, has a total 646 miles of track. The Norfolk & Western, which carries coal across the Cumberland Mountains, has 77 miles of electrified track. The coal-carrying Virginian in the same territory has 231 miles...