Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army is strong on soubriquets, and nowhere does the bearer of an historic nickname fare better than at West Point. Henry E. ("Light Horse Harry"*) Wilson, Army football captain last year and Army football crackerjack the past four years, took both the Edgerton Sabre (for being football captain) and the Army Athletic Association Sabre (for being best all round athlete) at last week's West Point ceremonies. It was the first time that a cadet had won both swords. Some people said that the nickname hypnotized the judges. This was most unjust, for Cadet Wilson outstood in baseball...
What made the Wilson awards remarkable, especially in the opinion of men who have sported against West Point, was the supremacy of any one "Pointer" over all his fellows in all-round ability. West Pointers must be fit to get in, to stay in. Their life is rigorous, their sports many. That "Light Horse Harry" Wilson outmuscled and outgeneraled his classmates in all things, was, after all, less remarkable than the fact that in all West Point history (the Academy was founded in 1802) no previous captain of "the manliest sport" has clearly outmanned all his contemporaries in other directions...
Rested, "Aussie's" continent-linking sons faced West, planned to circle the Earth...
...motors roared; Fijians retreated, howling with fear and regret. Into their lives had come something more thrilling even than the bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
Tomorrow night the polo team's string of ponies will be shipped to Rye, New York, in preparation for the intercollegiate tournament, which starts Saturday afternoon with games between Yale and Princeton, and Pennsylvania Military Institute and West Point. Harvard drew a bye in the first round, and its second round opponent is still unknown. The team leaves Cambridge Saturday morning for observation of future rivals, and for the dinner Saturday night at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club...