Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nearby, he was not afraid. Nor was it "baloney" to him. He sang earnestly, correctly, to the end. George J. Anderson, president of the Consolidated Coal Co. (Rockefeller, "largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee Smith to the Society's units...
...Miller, literary editor of the Pointer, the West Point weekly, has given to Crimson readers, in the following article, a few of the traditions current at "Old-Hell-on-the-Hudson...
...question often arises: is that the only way to produce vertebrate men, men with backbone and genius, leaders, generals? College students and cadets are different sides of the same coins. The Harvard theory of civilization and culture contrasts greatly with the West Point theory of civilization and development. Each produces results in its territory. West Point has a single purpose, to produce the highest type of soldiers for the country in time of war. And these West Pointers seem to glow in the spirit of militant service of their country...
...answer depends on the man. There is no accounting for the individual taste. At West Point we have many and varied customs, pleasant and unpleasant, but all handed down from former days, and constantly in the process of growth. We have found an answer that fits our purpose. The rest of the world may praise or blame as it sees fit. To us they are standards that we must follow to be worthy of the men before us. Some are for the good of the individual--though he often doubts it is plebe days and some we would not part...
...classmen are all Mr. So-and-so to him. He cannot speak to them without being spoken to, he pulls his chin back and elevates his chest by orders, and gradually it dawns on him that he is not appreciated. That the hero of Podunk is completely obscured at West Point! And in him, perhaps, is born the realization that he is important only as one of the Corps; that he must be a part of the team or not play at all that he must learn subordination of self to command...