Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 350 miles (5°) north of the Equator, from Africa to South America. Carribbean waters are just as warm (80° F.). Almost as warm, and much higher in level than the open ocean is the Gulf of Mexico. The combination of Gulf temperature and level with the West Indies volcanic action and the twirling of the Earth sets a current of warm water running north along the American coast to Newfoundland-the Gulf Stream. A wall of cold water separates the Gulf Stream from the North American continent...
...comparatively little of its heat at Newfoundland. It drifts eastward to help warm all of Europe, including of course England.* Europe is warmer than North America. Off Europe the Gulf Stream Drift splits into three streams. One goes between the Faeroe and Shetland Islands north of Scotland, another along west Iceland, the third along the western side of Greenland...
...happened to walk down the west side of Fifth Avenue, between 42nd and 40th streets, Manhattan, on almost any summer day of recent years likely as not you were the object of a penetrating glance from a young woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...
Unusual attention met the appeal of the Post Office Dept. For the first time in 58 years, more than two companies submitted bids. And when the three offers were examined, last week, Postmaster General New found that low bid was 22% less than the present contract (with Middle West Supply Co., Dayton, Ohio), would add some $5,000,000 to the shearings and scrapings so insistently demanded by Budgeteer Herbert Mayhew Lord. Postmaster General New named a committee to study the bids, probably to recommend awarding the contract to the low International Envelope Corp., subsidiary of the (world...
...Commissioner of Education John James Tigert, 46, handed last week his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West and announced that he had accepted the presidency of the University of Florida...