Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alexander Maxwell Stollmeyer '30, of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies, was elected captain of next years soccer team yesterday, after having played consistently outstanding soccer at fullback, during his first year on the University team...
...from the Dolores Mission which once stood there-corresponds to that section of many another U. S. city where stands the ghosts of a bygone gentility, old houses built for large, well-to-do families which have long since scattered or died out. Cf. Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, the "West Side" in Manhattan, Boston's "Back Bay" (still showing signs of life), Chicago's original "South Side" (almost erased...
...Nation: "Ten years ago something new was born into the world: . . . Soviet Russia, still hated and feared by the West, is enthusiastically celebrating its tenth birthday. . . . Soviet Russia has become a land of hope, a country where millions of men and women feel a new intensity in the dull business of living . . . women have a freedom exceeding even that of America and Scandinavia; children have a primary consideration unknown elsewhere; and the whole machinery of the State is directed .toward raising the standards of living of the millions. No government in history has set out so deliberately and so successfully...
President George Eastman of the Eastman Kodak Co. last week received replies from the 1,000 businessmen whose opinions he had recently asked on the 13-month calendar he advocates. Practically every one approved the calender. The United States Chamber of Commerce national counselors in conference at West Baden, Ind., a month ago approved it; the transportation committee of the League of Nations has approved it. Quite possibly the legislatures of important countries will vote its adoption. Its chief obstacles, apparently, are the customs of various religions...
...feature of this winter's schedule will be a match away from home with the Cincinnati Riding Club. Among the other teams the University and Freshman teams will face during the indoor season are the members of the Boston Indoor Polo League, mostly Army teams; West Point away from home; and Yale, in two home-and-home encounters...