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Word: westing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . The letter printed in TIME, Feb. 28, under the caption "Ohio's Coal Bin" is no more than oafish drivel. Subscriber* Zweiger's confessed familiarity with the routine of sleeping off a debauch over Sunday doubtless explains why he has never met any of West Virginia's representative citizenship. His amazing inaccuracy is exemplified in his inference that the Ohio River was named for our excellent neighbor state to the north and west. The reverse is the case by nearly 200 years, bat what's 260 years to Mr. Zweiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

CONRAD BREVICK Secretary-Manager Bluefield Chamber of Commerce Bluefleld, West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...have a great egg fight of our own in West Hall's big front yard, letting members of the various classes choose their opponents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/9/1927 | See Source »

Every football fan in the middle west believes that the leading Conference teams could win at least six out of ten games from Yale, Harvard or Princeton, as they believe they could in the long run from Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, the Army of the Navy. But a few more intersectional games would add a lot of spice to any football season. The Big Ten Weekly

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

...supernatural endowment, he finds nothing too lowly, dull or grotesque to serve his purpose-a beggars' shelter, a dusty country road, a flyblown tavern. One who speculates on the borders of insanity, he never long departs from concrete dramatization. Shoot is as full of action as a wild west show, as full of metaphysics as a German university, and more exciting than any combination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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