Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crossing this line from east to west, travelers "skip a day." Should they cross at dinner time, for example, they would find themselves supping their soup on Sunday, sipping their coffee on Monday. Crossing from west to east is equally strange. If, on a Monday, the traveler regrets not having said his Sunday prayers the day before, he will have a chance to make amends. The same Sunday will return to him, holy as ever...
...When one goes from west to east one is lifted by the action of the earth itself. When he travels from east to west the very action of the earth pulls him down, depresses him. And?here is a bold, statement?I do not believe that Newton was right in describing the force which pulls us down as gravitation. I believe it is nothing but the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the earth. If we could travel fast enough from west to east we would be able to overcome that pull...
...Count Tolstoi's enthusiasm even led him to predict that airplane flights from west to east would be more successful, as in the recent past, than east-west flights. He recommended great west-east pilgrimages to improve the health and general well-being of all mankind...
...supposed the case of an aviator able to fly at a speed equal to Earth's rotation (roughly, 1,000 m.p.h. midway between Poles and Equator). If the flyer flew against the rotation of the earth, from east to west, he would keep pace with the sun, remaining constantly at the o'clock when he started. Going the other way, eastward, he would pass a whole day in 12 hours...
...Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...