Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connections between Spain and Ireland are clearer. Bilbao is only 660 miles from Cork. Not only potato growers but Spanish and Irish fishermen have been rivals, sometimes friends, for centuries. The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, is blamed for the "black" Irish of the Western Isles. The Irish Duke of Wellington was made a Spanish Grandee...
...Manhattan it was revealed that since last autumn Nikola Tesla, 80, eccentric, Lika-born electrical inventor, had been paying Western Union to send a messenger boy to the Public Library promenade twice daily, scatter 5 Ib. of corn for the pigeons...
...Another Western Union service: throwing rice at weddings...
Made public last night was a gift to the Business School library on behalf of the family of Torr W. Harmer '03 of a collection of reports, indentitures and the like pertaining to Western and Mexican railroads. The gift enriches an already outstanding collection of railroad history...
Crew Coach Ed Leader, who succeeded Connibear at Washington, where he had played football as well as rowed, started the Washington monopoly of U. S. crew-coaching. His western successes attracted the attention of Yale, whither he went in 1922 taking Richard Pocock with him. He was succeeded at Washington by Russell ("Rusty") Callow, who brought the West Coast its first Poughkeepsie Regatta winner in 1923, went to the University of Pennsylvania in 1927. Currently, Washington crews are coached by Al Ulbrickson, whose major rival is Ky Ebright, Washington coxswain in 1916-17, now head coach at California. Between them...