Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years the Michigan football team was known as the championship aggregation of the West. The men were always quick; and they always gained numerous victories during the season. But Michigan's supremacy was disputed in those days, even more than now, by Minnesota...
...first western invasion since the late fall of 1920, Harvard will be exhibiting its football wares to a curious and expectant crowd. It is more than football, however, that will draw eighty thousand spectators into the Michigan stadium. To the alumni of the middle-west the team represents a vital connecting link between themselves and Harvard, and the Michigan adherents see the players in the light of emissaries from an ancient and famous college of the East to one of the out-standing universities of the middle-west...
...Union will show the full details on its grid graph in the Living Room, beginning at 2.30 o'clock and admitting to Union members only. Spectators at the Harvard Freshman - Dartmouth Freshman game will get an opportunity to follow the clash in the middle west by the grid graph on Soldiers Field. Other places where the game will be picked out of the air from the WBZ broadcasting station and verbally distributed to the fans will be Leavitt and Peirce's and the lobby of the University Theatre...
...rest of the globe. The second difficulty is that, if the majestic idea of a vast federation is actually carried out in Europe, two of the most important units must he omitted. The first of them is Russia. Five-sixths of the population of that Soviet Union live west of the Ural Mountains, commonly considered the boundary between Europe and Asia. But Russia has put out creepers across Asia which are not compatible with membership in a European federation. To be sure, the Soviet Union is the strongest believer on the globe in international unification. The Russian idea, however...
...instance which is dealt with in the volume concerns the administration of President Pierce, in 1855, when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War. The Great American Desert was at that time a sizable obstacle in the way of transportation from the west to the east. Davis had, as Senator from Mississippi, conceived of the idea of inaugurating a camel route across the desert in order to relieve the situation, and when he became Secretary of War he secured an appropriation of $30,000 from Congress to carry out his scheme...