Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...armored cars and motor cycles competing, the cavalry, once the most spectacular service of national defense, is so little heard of that few citizens know who is U. S. cavalry chief. Major General Herbert B. Crosby is his name. A 56-year-old Kansan, he served in Cuba, the west, the Philippines and, as a Colonel of Infantry, in France. He mounted the highest of U. S. horses...
...earn her own living, which she started to do in vile "honkytonks" with sawdust on the floor-at eight dollars a week. She once related that when she went to conquer Manhattan the city so nearly conquered her that she and a girl who came with her from the west decided to kill themselves. Now she is one of the most highly paid dancers in the world...
...Baffin Island's unexplored west coast yielded to an expedition under direction of Publisher George Palmer Putnam, evidence of a great new mountain range that may yet cause the map of North America to be changed. Traces of a pre-Eskimo civilization (called by the explorers Tunic) pointed to a lost race...
...game are uncertain except in the minds of the Boilermakers: But, let it be said every man on the team that will attempt to efface the Crimson of "dear old Harvard" will do his level best to let the East know that somewhere in a hamlet in the Middle West is located a school called Purdue...
...West has for centuries looked upon the Far East as a region of untold wealth with opportunities for unbounded commercial development," said Professor G. B. Roorbach of the Business School to a CRIMSON reporter...