Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Representatives of the United Mine Workers came, led by John L. Lewis, their president. It was at their reiterated request (TIME, Nov. 28, Dec. 5) that Secretary Davis had issued his invitations. With some 100,000 members on unsuccessful strike since last spring in bituminous Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, the United Mine workers had passed from anger to anxiety to anguish...
From now on the football season may lack this fine and frenzied final, the Army v. Navy game. Last week letters went from Annapolis to West Point stating certain differences in athletic rulings which made football games between the two unequal contests; requesting that these differences be removed. The Army could not agree to remove the differences; returned the 1928 game contract unsigned...
...differences between the two, which will no longer be forgotten upon a trampled gridiron, are these; men may enter West Point at any age from 17 to 22; at Annapolis, 20 is the maximum entrance age. At West Point a man who has played football at another university may continue to play; at the Navy three years of collegiate football is the limit for any player. Though the Annapolis enrollment is 50% larger than West Point the Army has the advantage, has beaten Annapolis with more than fair frequency in recent years...
...Harvard Chess Club will play in a four-cornered match against Yale, Princeton, and West Point from December 28 to December 30. The games will be tabled in the Manhattan Chess Club of New Yor City...
...odds favor the University outfit, as both Harvard and Princeton defeated Yale at the chess matches during the football season, and Yale succeeded in vanquishing West Point...