Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countless speakers from countless pulpits have made a platitude of the statement that the man who has had the greatest influence over the lives of Western peoples has been neigther emperor nov statesman, author or scientist, but an humble carpenter from Galilee. The story of the development of the institution founded by Christ is a vital one to students of philosophy, literature, politics and art, for all of them bear to some extent the impress of the power it has wielded over the mind of man for the past nineteen centuries. For that reason the lecture to be given...
...means of a third gift, a collection of 237 hand-drawn and colored images, red Lamaism, the ancient, unaltered form of Buddism, has for the first time been satisfactorily explained to the Western World. Red Lamaism, which was later followed by the reformed yellow Lamaism, was in its ascendency in the fourteenth century...
...last two and major points of his thesis Counselor Cahill is factually illuminating where most analysts would prove vague. He observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...
Another huge horde filled the stadium hoping to watch the Army repel the western invasion. Biff Hoffman, the Stanford fullback, came out with his stockings down; other Stanford players were without headguards. Opposite them, but not much in the way, stood the neat, trim, speedy Army eleven with Cagle at its back. The Stanford team, which is not the best in the far West, was ludicrously superior to the Army, which has been considered the best team in-the East. One play, an antique variation of a fake "statue of liberty" never failed to gain ten yards. The members...
There was another East-West game played last week in Los Angeles, by Southern California the best of the Western teams, against Notre Dame the only Eastern team which, by virtue of the inspiration which football players share with soldiers, beat the Army. Don Williams, the Californian quarterback, and Jess Hibbs, who cut a swathe ahead of him, were vastly superior to any Notre Dame players. The game was not lopsided like the others, but the score was 27-14. and Southern California...