Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady west wind has raised mild havoc with Coach Brown's plans so far. The races that were scheduled to take place on the Basin last Saturday and Tuesday had to be confined to brushes on the short straight stretches upstream. One feature of the early season work has been the appearance of a number of Sophomores as strong candidates. In addition to Brownell and Gray, L. W. Dickey '30, Marshall Rawle '30, James Roosevelt '30, and A. A. Campbell '30 have shown possibilities. With four members of last year's eight in harness, with another quartet of former second...
...Army at West Point...
...CARSON, THE HAPPY WARRIOR OF THE OLD WEST #151;Stanley Vestal-Hough-ton Mifflin ($3.50). Before Horace Greeley had thought of his famed suggestion, Kit Carson had made the West his own country. At 15, he was apprenticed to a saddler. He ran away after a few months to become a "mountain man." Soon he was counted among the best. He knew the habits of game animals, was well versed in customs and mental processes of the Indian. He had a reputation for absolute truthfulness and reliability, and was a crack shot. He never learned to read or write (except...
...touring car, containing W. L. Shaney, his wife Esther, and fouryear old daughter Alleen, running eastward along Memorial Drive, at 1.15 o'clock yesterday afternoon, suddenly, with no apparent cause, plunged into eight feet of water in the Charles River just west of Anderson Bridge. Only the top of the car was left in sight...
...discovery of such a staunch adherent to the cause in the midst of an enemy city should encourage the drys greatly. But they had best remove the young hero from a position so fraught with dangers to his integrity. He can be sent to school in the virtuous Middle West and afterwards on a missionary tour to the hotel bellboys throughout the country. Who knows? He may even grow up to be President of the Anti-Saloon League...