Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flying Club will hold a special "Air Service Smoker" tonight in West-morly 136 to mark the completion of a successful year and to honor several well known air service men of Boston and vicinity. The guests of honor will be Captain Horace Heison of the Army; Major C. H. Wooley, of the National Guard; Captain Christopher Ford, Captain Bartlett Beaman, both of the Army air force; Lieutenant Reginald D. Thomas commander of the Naval Air Base as Squantum; and Lieutenant Charles Green...
From South and West Africa, Morocco, Mesopotamia, Transjordania, Tripoli, Tunis, Syria, Libya, Java, India there came to Cairo last week grave and potent Mohammedans, who solemnly entered and squatted within the mosque of Islam's most ancient university, El Azhar
They moved out of Kings Bay one dazzling polar morning, their silver ship soaring over an ocean of crystal glare. Their northward course was slightly west of the line taken by Flyer Byrd two days previously (TIME, May 17). The day was to be Ellsworth's birthday and he wondered whether fortune would bring him the present he longed for- new land, Ellsworth Land...
...hours their instruments told them they were at the Pole. They bared their heads, dropped their flags, and after circling for 2½ hours, set their rudder to follow the 160th meridian of West Longitude down the opposite curve of the world...
Harvard, therefore, cannot give her all to the preparatory schools of the East or to the ghettos of Eastern cities Coming from the plains of the Middle West and the Pacific Coast, from all parts of the country are boys in whom rests what promise the country has of fulfilling her purpose as a modern nation. All of these must be fitted for the task of intelligent and adequate citizenship in a modern state. Thus the traditions which are completely of New England to so much as they are necessary to strengthen and illumine the lives and minds of those...