Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democratic party in the Senate has three wings: the urban, wet, conservative East, the dry, conservative South, and the Progressive, dry, agrarian West. The tariff and prohibition, two issues which still bear in them the seeds of vigorous dissension, of partisanship and high political fury, will either' of them split this loose confederation...
Dean Hawkes of Columbia, Colonel Holt of West Point and Professor A. N. Holcombe of Harvard are the national judges...
...universities which are entered in the contest are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, West Point, Annapolis, University of Michigan. University of Chicago, University of Virginia, and University of Pennsylvania...
...because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central core pillar, and the Jataka tales sculptured on the walls, features unique, it is believed, in the sculpture of the period; and secondly, because of its situation on the trade route from India and the West...
...trade routes are one of the most picturesque of archaeological problems. The road from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was difficult to travel. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where it touched the western culture left haphazard by Alexander's armies and the traders who followed. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally, constricted by the Himalayan Mountains and the Gobi desert, debouched into what is now Kansu province...