Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babbit is sure that "Alexander Caesar, Attila, Charlemagne, th settlers of Manhattan, and the west" were actuated by the same urge which has recently raised prices in Florida. And it may be said that although Attila and John Doe stand for somewhat different methods of land improvement, it is substantially true that each followed a kindred instinct and urge. In fact economists have long recognized this urge and given it the caption, "land hunger". One may suspect that the term real estate finds company in Mr. Babbit's mind with barbarian transactions chiefly to steady the turbulence of property dealings...
...Shens! Province they found themselves in the wake of the defeated provincial army which had looted the villages along the road and largely wrecked the inns. The country was much upset and bands of robbers were frequent. Happily they had but one encounter with bandits. On the North west trade route they discovered some hitherto unreported rock grottoes of the sixth century, A. D. Enough evidence was there found to establish the date, but the sculpture had been badly destroyed during the various Mohametan rebellions which have devastated that part of China. Their stay there was cut short...
...making complete photographic records of the wall paintings in the Tun Huang grottoes. News from the coast, however, arrived at about that time that the strikes and shootings in Shanghai had resulted in what amounted to a general and anti-foreign sentiment. This was felt even in the remote west and the Harvard party were not permitted to take up their residence at the Tun Huang oasis or to make the necessary photographs...
...division of Fine Arts, were assisting in their various capacities. Langdon Warner '03, of the Fogg Museum had been delayed in Peking on other business for the college, but joined them some three days after they had been forced to retire from Tun Huang. Messrs. Jayne and Priest continued west to Urumchi the capital of Chinese Turkestan, where, after some delay, they received the Russians' permission to strike to the northwest and take the trans-Siberian Railroad to Peking...
Occasionally the question is brought up as to why the distance runners of the Far West have not seriously threatened the supremacy of the East in the two-mile event as they have done in other branches of track. Some are inclined to the theory that the climate in California is detrimental to distance runners of high caliber. I cannot subscribe to this view. I believe that this backwardness traces to a general lack of schoolboy interest and competition in the distance events in that section. This condition is reflected in the college ranks. When the schoolboys do become interested...