Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtailing his cruising radius, he becomes an "Aggravated Case" and the situation calls for Bring-back Powder, similar in nature but greater in potency than Tie-Them-Down. The Bringback retails at $50 for 25 powders; Tie-Them-Down at $25 for 25 powders. They are sold by the West African Remedy Co., the Pearce Health Institute, the Oriental Institute of Science and the Africa-American Institute of Science, all of which corporations have a very interlocking directorate consisting of "Dr." Pearce himself...
...other Senators, less daring, merely stopped off at Shanghai. They were Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, Montana Democrat, en route to the U. S. from the Philippines, and Senator Guy Despard Goff, West Virginia Republican, en route to the Philippines from...
...post of bishop of the Missionary District of Wyoming has received serious and prayerful consideration. It has, I confess, brought back to me many happy and sacred memories of the nearly 20 years during which I was permitted to live and work among the people of the West, for whom I have a deep affection, and among whom I number many of my dearest friends. . . . While I feel all this very deeply, and while I appreciate the expression of confidence and esteem on the part of the bishops of the Church, yet I am convinced that I can far better...
Died. Charles Frederick Rand, 70, famed engineer, onetime President of the American Institute of Mining Engineers; onetime Chairman of the Engineering Foundation; near West Orange, N. J. He was one of three engineers honored by membership in the "Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain," was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French Government in 1921, was decorated by Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...Intercollegiate Polo Championship was decided last week at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club in Rye, N. Y. Yale had outridden and out-scored Princeton, West Point, Pennsylvania Military College. Harvard, with a battered lineup, did not look hopefully toward the final game with Yale until a 198-pound oarsman, Forrester A. Clark, hastened down from New London where he had helped take the scalp of the Yale crew. Young Mr. Clark, himself no mean polo player, seemed to inspire hitherto hidden skill in his teammates, particularly in Messrs. Cotton and White. And so, Harvard took the lead and might have...