Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another Hydra head has popped up to threaten serenity in Reading Period hibernation. "Sunshine starvation" is the latest excuse to while away long hours over seductive literature on "coral islands", "bright jewels of the West Indies",--average temperature 60 to 70 degrees. For science has decreed that sunshine like food is pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround...
Henry Pennypacker "88, chairman of the Harvard Faculty Committee on Admission, will begin next week a trip which will continue through two months and take him to many of the leading cities in the West and Far West and also to the Hawaiian Islands. He will speak in the schools, confer with teachers and school superintendents, and incidentally talk to the Harvard Clubs in the communities which he will visit. Mr. Pennypacker's prime object is to make educators and pupils familiar with the entrance requirements of the Eastern colleges and with other subjects related to college entrance...
...promote both in China and America graduate study and research in the various branches of Chinese culture, with the primary objective of encouraging the Chinese to study their own highly, developed civilization in the light of occidental methods of research and to interpret this civilization to the West. It will thus be made possible for Yenching University to offer graduate work to its own students and to those who come from other parts of China, and thus assist in strengthening the emphasis on Chinese culture which is one of the beneficial consequences of the recent nationalistic awakening among Chinese students...
...extremely successful in itself. "They make great variety and a good combination," he continued. "Another innovation is that the story is based on reality. I have found out that the American public appreciates a sensible plot more than the general blurb we used to present years ago. That whole West Point affair was true, you know. We therefore thought the scenery should be real too. The music is also more coherent with the plot...
...gone west with empty pockets; filled them with gambler's gold. Sharp eyed, olive skinned, he played the Mississippi steamboats for a dangerous living...