Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extensive tour, including stops in five cities and reaching as far west as Chicago, will be undertaken by the University Instrumental Clubs during the Christmas holidays, it was announced last night by H. de W. Wood '30, manager of the Instrumental Clubs who has just completed final arrangements for the trip...
Exuding goodwill-and perspiration, for it grew hotter & hotter-President-Elect Hoover & party proceeded down the west coast of Central America, making four calls, to South America...
...persuade the U. S. soon to build the long-planned interoceanic canal across Nicaragua, for which a treaty and $3,000,000 have already been furnished. One of the canal's original promoters, Judge Henry Douglas Pierce of Indianapolis, who first traversed the proposed route from west to east half a century ago, was in Nicaragua on one of many missions which have brought Nicaraguan leaders to favor the project. Judge Pierce, stricken with pneumonia at Managua, missed the Hoover party but was cheered by reports that the President-Elect seemed impressed with the necessity for another canal...
Geographically it is interesting that Santiago. Chile, on the West Coast of South America, is due south of Boston, on the East Coast of North America. In other words the whole South American Continent lies thousands of miles farther East than most U. S. citizens would guess...
...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 of the Army team, like children who have been playing with toughies, were discovered...