Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From the War Department, President Coolidge learned that it would be inadvisable to send the Army football team from West Point, N. Y., to play Stanford University in California this autumn as he had suggested...
...Aged 47, he is at present the youngest, most dashing U. S. Major General. He commanded the famed Rainbow (42d) Division in the War. From 1919 to 1922 he was Superintendent of West Point, whence he was graduated in 1903 at the head of his class. To the second-most-important post in the Philippines he takes a knowledge of the Islands gained there as a young officer of engineers on construction work (1903-04) and as commander of the 23d Infantry Brigade at Manila (1922-25). Since 1925 he has commanded the Third Corps Area, at Baltimore...
...Father Quinn, listening drowsily to his radio. The weather reports were coming in: ". . . rains over Holland . . . cold days marching southward through France. . . ." As he reached to turn off the loud speaker, its hoarse voice growled a terrible threat: "High wind and rain ... a hurricane . . . tempest will reach the west coast of Ireland tonight. . . ." Father Quinn thought of the fishermen who went out upon Galway Bay in wretched, unsubstantial tarred-canvas boats- the only boats they could afford. Hatless, he raced out of his house and down to the shore to give warning. From the shore he looked...
...bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood at Limerick. Over the west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology, rolled up eight corpses on the sand. To the men who had drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution. He tried to comfort...
Illinois retained a stainless record in the Western Conference scoring two touchdowns, 14 points, against Iowa's none. Michigan managed Chicago with the same score. In an intersectional game which recaptured some of the prestige lost by Ohio State at Princeton, Missouri won from West Virginia...