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Word: westing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unfortunately the religion of the nations which now dominate the world is of the masterful, imperialistic and exclusive type, and therefore cannot be counted as a force for harmony, at least so far as relations between East and West are concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Christians Rebuked | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...Missionaries fail, or refuse to see that the East has her own faith and philosophy, favorably comparable to those of the West. . . . The East is capable of progression in spiritual matters without Western guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Christians Rebuked | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...William Jennings Bryan before he died, according to his old friend, Playwright Augustus Thomas.* "I saw the actual wording of the amendment," said Playwright Thomas, "and gave it as my opinion that such an amendment, if passed by Congress, might secure sufficient support from Fundamentalist states, south and west, to become ratified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trends | 3/15/1926 | See Source »

...teams have shown remarkable improvement, over rather poor early season form, in working toward this objective. The Yale team was handicapped for several weeks by the loss of Miller and several other regulars through sickness and injuries. It was chiefly on account of this that they lost to Brown. West Point, and Lehigh, all three of which had exceptionally strong teams. The Yale team has, however, defeated small margin. The University lost to M.I.T., using many substitutes, and later by a close decision to Princeton. But Yale's apparent advantage through her victory over Princeton is counterbalanced by the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CRIMSON TEAMS TO GRAPPLE WITH BLUE INVADERS AT HEMENWAY TONIGHT | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

...plot, far from being laid in the land of Marquitas and Pedros, found its origin much closer home in the city of Rachaels and Izzys, had it not been that it was laid in that section of New York which I have never been able to abide, the West Side. To me that strip of Manhattan north of Columbus Circle which pries in betwen Central Park and the Hudson River, is suggestive of all that is depressing and all that is unromantic in the world's largest city...

Author: By Cecil B. Lyon, | Title: Three Delightfully ephemeral Novels | 3/13/1926 | See Source »

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