Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Persons traveling to Siam, Cochin-China, China, and Iraq must still beware cholera; along West Africa yellow fever; in backward Europe typhus; everywhere smallpox...
...mother, he came to the U. S. to enlist in the Union cavalry during the Civil War. When the war was over he found life difficult, and eventually put in practice the advice of an editor somewhat less famed than he himself was to become: Greeley, with his "Go West...
Calvary Baptist (No. 123 West 57th Street), wherein is the pulpit of angular, fulminating Dr. John Roach Straton...
...member of the Midwestern association. There are three college comic associations: the Western, including colleges west of a line drawn south through Denver; the Eastern, including colleges east of a line drawn south through Pittsburgh; the Midwestern lying between...
...Significance. War novels by the gross have detailed the lice, the mud, the oaths, on "Flanders Field." The present volume is distinctive in vivifying that other, more mysterious, no-man's-land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest...