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Word: westing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Saturday, President Coolidge promoted Brigadier General Merch Bradt Stewart, U. S. A., to be Major General Stewart. On Tuesday, Major General Stewart retired from the Army, pleading physical disability. When he did so, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., lost its superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: At West Point | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...fill the vacancy thus caused on the active list of general officers, Brigadier General Richmond P. Davis of Camp Lewis (Washington state) was made a Major General and Colonel Walter C. Short, a San Juan Hill hero, became Brigadier General Short. To superintend West Point officialdom finally decided on Major General William R. Smith, commander of the Army's Hawaiian department (Fort Shafter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: At West Point | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...West Point is primarily associated in the public mind with rigidly erect, flawlessly neat, machinelike companies of cadets marching and countermarching over their parade ground on the Hudson Palisades. General Stewart was an ideal superintendent in such a conception: 31 years an infantryman, an expert and exacting drillmaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: At West Point | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...intensive study of yellow fever and other tropical diseases will be undertaken next year in West Africa by Dr. A. W. Sellards. Assistant Professor of Tropical Medicine at the Medical School, it was announced yesterday through University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sellards to Fight Yellow Fever | 10/15/1927 | See Source »

...first time in 17 years the Army mule will kick up his heels on Soldiers Field when the West Point eleven comes to meet the University football team October 20, 1928. Next year's schedule, announced in part yesterday, lists this encounter as the third game of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CADET ELEVEN WILL BRING ARMY MULE HERE NEXT YEAR | 10/14/1927 | See Source »

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