Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States, namely the small farm, operated by the farmer and his family, without any payroll, and the large farm operated on an industrial basis with high priced skilled mechanics, improved machinery and industrial management. We will always have the small farm in the United States, but the western country, known as the Great Plains Area, where the rainfall is limited to 15 inches, can only be successfully farmed on the large production basis with low cost of operation per acre...
...China and Modern Western Civilization", Dr Hu Shih, Emerson...
Came Ratu Popi Seniloli, Great Chief of Fiji, who yet takes orders from that greater chief, Sir Eyre Hutson, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Attired in a garment of woven bark (tapa), and resplendent in a necklace of polished whale's teeth,* Great Chief Ratu Popi presented the Duke with the tooth of a sperm whale...
...cordiality so eager and genuine that we carry away from Shanghai some of the most impressive memories of the cruise. Here, as in Japan, we find a devotion to education which surely must be significant of the intention of these ancient people to meet the West with western methods and western understanding. As one student expressed it, 'The manner in which these Chinese students caused us to look like school children at the Shanghai conference made me fairly disgusted...
...classified, together with five volumes of text describing bird habits and habitats. To lighten up this Ornithological Biography he inserted, after every fifth bird, an "episode" or "delineation" from his roamings. These sketches, carried through three volumes, constitute by themselves an incomparable volume on early America. Professor Herrick of Western Reserve University, Audubon's biographer, has edited this volume for the first time in English...