Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Several proposals to extend the immigration quota to the entire Western hemisphere, especially Canada, Mexico, the Philippines...
...toward a tackling dummy and sprang to drag it off its runner; that was "his senior tackle" an Ohio State ceremony performed by men who are leaving the team, on the last day of practice. The next day, he lost his last chance to win the Big Ten or Western Conference championship as Illinois scored eight points in the first half and then held on while returns from other conference games flashed up along the Scoreboard. By beating Ohio State 8-0, Illinois became the Conference champion for the second successive year...
Machines. Hopelessly overtaxed, the market's machinery halted Friday night, attempted to catch up over the weekend. Early in the week, the ticker had run two hours behind the market. Exchange authorities ordered the omission of volume figures on the tape. To supply the press with the figures, Western Union sent to Chicago for telegraphic printing machines, chartered six compartments of the Twentieth Century Limited to carry them swiftly and luxuriously to Manhattan. Even without volume, the ticker ran 49 minutes behind in Friday's session...
Railroad securities specialists have pondered many another example of freak financing. Wisconsin's Green Bay & Western R. R. (G. B. & W., unjustly parodied: "Grab Bag & Walk") issued Debenture B bonds which rank after the company's common stock. Authorized common stock of the Canadian National R. R. Co. totals $180,424,327.70. It is represented by one certificate, made out in the name of His Majesty, George V of England...
...torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution of the soul to higher and higher spirituality. Western science of the future will be more concerned with the consciousness of man rather than his knowledge-Eastern philosophers...