Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cloud of dust which is now swept about the Convention Hall at Kansas City on the wings of agrarian oratory whispers that the Middle West is not, for the seargeants-at-arms at least, the most fortuitous location for the Republican stronghold. Most of the candidates, it appears, are like so many tares scattered among the grain growers. And if the one hundred thousand embattled farmers which Governor McMullen intends to head in their frontal attack next week are not a battalion of Grim Reapers as far as the Hoover cause is concerned, they have in the bag, at least...
...Hence the rejoicing of Labor, when a decision is handed down like the one that came last week from the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Some 40,000 firemen and "engine hostlers" (men who wash and oil locomotives) employed by 55 class one railroads of the west, were awarded a pay-raise, aggregating $3,600,000 per annum...
...Edmonds of Stanford, Les Barnes of Southern California, and Sabin Carr of Yale. Carr won without breaking any records. Only two men scored double firsts, Ray Barbuti (Syracuse) in the 220 and 440, and Eric Krenz (Stanford) in the discus and shot put. Illinois, regular winner in the middle west, did what was expected at Evanston, Ill., and by winning eleven points out of sixteen kept the track and field championship of the Big Ten. George Simpson (Ohio State) won two events, the 100 and the 220-yard dash. Lately Cambridge has been beating Oxford at most sports. There...
...many years they worked to weaken the little bugs and yet keep them alive. Of these they made a vaccine and inoculated cattle with great success (TIME, July 7, 1924). They made a vaccine for humans; sent it to the Pasteur Institute at Kindia on the coast of French West Africa. Here were man's nearest biological relatives in their natural environment...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-Court procedure centres around a chorus girl who seems to have murdered a very dear gentleman friend (TIME, Oct. 3). THE SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman sharpens his chopsticks (TIME, Feb. 20). THE SCARLET Fox-Willard Mack gets his man (TIME, April 9). DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a place which, to judge by the shape of her bed, must be a swan-dive (TIME, April 23). FUNNY BURLESQUE-The vicissitudes of vaudeville votaries (TIME, Sept. 12). THE BACHELOR FATHER-Natural children in velvet gloves, or father's day at the foundling's home (TIME...