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Word: westing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Central Africa, west of the Congo River, was visited by a strange terror-Dr. James P. Chapin, associate curator of birds of the American Museum of Natural History. Little monkeys chattered and cried to one another in the treetops that the white-faced hunter had taken 2,500 lives out of feathery, furry bodies to stuff them with dead, hard matter. From the green lowlands, Dr. Chapin started up the side of a glacial mountain of the Ruwenzori Range. In sight of snow, 50 miles from the equator, his blackamoors, convinced that the strange whiteness was the touch of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expeditions: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...west, Oregon won from Pacific 32-6; Southern California from Santa Clara, 52 to 12; while famed Stanford lost to St. Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football Matches: Oct. 10, 1927 | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

...were not so much interested in the Harvard game. We came over east to test our attack and give it a few finishing touches by playing a strong team, but the attack itself is intended for the Big Ten Conference. Our league is in the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ATTACK FEEBLE, STATES PURDUE CAPTAIN | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

When he was asked whether he saw any fundamental difference between western and eastern football, he said, "I guess they're made a little tougher in the West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ATTACK FEEBLE, STATES PURDUE CAPTAIN | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Early in October, 1921, a football team from the University of Indiana left the Stadium, after vainly attempting to check a powerful Crimson offense, on the short end of a 19 to 0 score. After a six year interlude in gridiron relations between Cambridge and the Middle West, the football representatives of Purdue, another Indiana university, appeared on the Stadium turf last Saturday and reversed by the same count the former Harvard Hoosier football verdict...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PURDUE AVENGES FALL OF INDIANA | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

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