Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ohio can't be proud of the "gang," of course, but it's going pretty strong for a West Virginian [Newsstand Buyer Sands, TIME, Feb. 21] to get uppitty. What's West Virginia but Ohio's coal bin? Just a dirty, disheveled stretch of mine dumps and scraggly mountains, filled with a bunch of ignorants that only know enough to swing picks and drink moonshine. That's one reason you can't spend anything but Sunday on Sunday in West Virginia. Everybody's drunk or sleeping it off down there on Sunday. . . . What President did West Virginia ever produce...
...Charles Dewey Hilles of Manhattan, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, set forth on a month's tour of the South, Middle West and Far West. He will endeavor to find out what other Republican bigwigs think of a third term for President Coolidge. He does not know, he says, whether the President intends to be a candidate...
...University foilsmen cross swords with West Point today at West Point. Harold Berliner '29, Maxwell Davidson '27, C. B. H. Hollister '29, A. C. Lane '27 and R. P. Outerbridge '28 are the men who are taking the trip to the Military Academy...
...personnel of the football rules committee. This committee, although the game had become national in scope, was still largely an eastern organization. Harvard wanted it always to be so, for then the power of the Crimson on the committee would be great. Harvard has never wanted the middle west, the south and the far west to have equal representation with the east on the football rules committee. --Big Ten Weekly. February...
Certainly his theory seems to fit nicely with the general tendencies not only of history in its narrow sense, but of human activity as a whole. Even the ancient China of 500 B.C. had a romantic rebound from classicism with a feeling kindred to that of the contemporary West, and its prophet in Chuang-Tzn, the spiritual twin of Rousseau...