Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roger E. Clapp, Indianapolis--Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio...
...gymnasium, Gannett House, a frame building dating from about 1830 and now used by the Harvard Law School, will be moved within the next month a short distance from its present location at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Holmes Place. It will stand on what is now the western branch of Holmes Place and will face to the east...
Geographically, there will probably be found the usual majority of Eastern homes and schools, followed by a solid Middle and Far Western block, and a smattering from almost every part of the Union and corner of the globe...
...since they bought only three of his Clippers, suddenly announced that his booming plant at Baltimore would build a still bigger flying boat for an unnamed company being organized to fly the Atlantic. Who, air men wondered, would have the temerity to challenge Pan American on the Atlantic? Transcontinental & Western Air? Royal Dutch Air Lines (K. L. M.)? Onetime Director of Air Commerce Eugene Vidal and friends? Last week the ambitious newcomer was finally revealed: American Export Lines, which operates 18 ships to the Mediterranean. In Washington it applied for permission to supplement transatlantic ship service with air service...
...priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another leading gold mine for western civilization's advertisers, were an even bigger flop than cigarets. "The total consumption of foreign pills," says Crow, "probably does not average much more than one pill per annum per person." Yet curiously enough reliable insurance companies call the Chinese as good risks as English or Americans...