Word: westerns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question to be debated will be one of Chinese independence, and will be worded as follows: "Resolved, That the Western Powers should recognize the Nanking Nationalist Government as a first step toward surrendering political control over the Chinese tariff and foreign policy and gradually abandoning the extraterritorial features of the concessions...
...night, and all the next day and night rain fell on the little mountains of western New England. It ran down the mountains in rivulets, into the brooks and small rivers, into the big Connecticut River, which is the boundary of Vermont and New Hampshire; into the Merrimac in New Hampshire; into the Hoosick River, which drops to the Hudson out of Vermont and Massachusetts; into Otter Creek, which flows northwest into Lake Champlain; into the Winooski, which tumbles through the Green Mountains for 60 miles...
...nine Protestant Episcopal churches in Europe* last week received a new bishop-in-charge. Their bishop had been the Right Reverend Charles Henry Brent, who, besides, held the see of Western New York. But Bishop Brent, 65, has been ill and for several weeks in Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore. The double diocesan work threatened too much labor for his strength. He resigned his collateral work in Europe. John Gardner Murray, presiding bishop, at once communicated with another able churchman, rugged Bishop William Lawrence. Bishop Lawrence, 77, last June resigned from the Diocese of Massachusetts, where his coadjutor bishop...
Illinois retained a stainless record in the Western Conference scoring two touchdowns, 14 points, against Iowa's none. Michigan managed Chicago with the same score. In an intersectional game which recaptured some of the prestige lost by Ohio State at Princeton, Missouri won from West Virginia...
This art museum is one of Toledo's dearest prides. The citizens, not content with stark commercialism, determined to bring to their city all the concentrated beauty that a staggering sum of money could buy. It stands today one of the finest public collections in the western world. It was unquestionably the influence of this museum that prompted Lasalle & Koch to engage Artist Covey as their window-dresser. Nor did they engage him to help sell shoes and pots and furniture. Not one item of their stock was to be placed in their windows during the twelve days the pictures...