Word: westerner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Outside of the clash in the Stadium this afternoon, however, the interest of football followers turns mostly to western fields. Two great conference games are on today's gridiron card. Wisconsin will try to stop its traditional rival, the powerful Michigan team, while Illinois, conqueror of Pennsylvania journeys to Chicago to meet the strong Windy City eleven. All of these teams are dangerous contenders for the "Big Ten" title and today's results should carry the combatants several steps nearer a decision for the recognized Middle Western supremacy...
...Having exemplified largesse by distributing $2,000 in tips to the employes of the Hotel Ambassador, Her Majesty was whisked to the Grand Central Terminal where she began her western anabasis...
...Smoker will be under the auspices of the Debating Union, the fortunes of which for the coming year have been entrusted to a newly appointed committee of eight graduates and undergraduates. A Western Union wire has been leased for the evening and during the speaking the returns from throughout the nation will be received...
Purdue is a member of the "Big Ten" conference, and while not habitually represented by one of the most powerful elevens in this middle western federation, is expected to provide an unusually strong team for the second game of the season...
...Mass-hatred, doctrines of race-superiority, conflicts of color and religion are prevalent in the world today. And the last world struggle was a war to end war! Nations are now racing madly for the next war. It will mean the deathblow for Western civilization. Yet the trained intelligence of scientists has been devoted these last few years to the discovery of the best means of wholesale slaughter. Poison gas has been so perfected by their work that its use in the next war will mean racial murder. Cities will be blotted out as trenches were...