Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since being graduated Horween has made a careful study of modern football as played in the Middle West and West and last fall coached the Chicago Bears, on which Red Grange starred. A fortnight ago Horween traveled to Cambridge to confer with Mr. Bingham and to consult with the committee regarding the appointment of assistant coaches for next year, the names of whom will be announced later...
...bill could be taken up immediately. Senator Smoot, Chairman of the Finance Committee, like Mr. Green in the House, explained that it was the best bill that could be got. Senator Fletcher of Florida attacked the bill because estate taxes had been restored in conference. And Senator Neely of West Virginia declared it was a millionaire's bill, and wanted the taxes on admissions and on automobiles entirely stricken out. He moved to recommit the bill. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, made a point of order, that the bill could not be recommitted because the House in passing...
Last week Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood died in Baltimore of apoplexy. She was the only child of a great editor and her death will have its reverberations through the middle west, the reason is simple. Her father, William Rockhill Nelson, was nearly 40 when he went out to Kansas City from Fort Wayne, Ind., that was 1880. In his new home he founded the Kansas City Star. He made it not only one of the greatest but one of the most prosperous papers in the middle West. It not only dominated Kansas City but all the surrounding country...
...arched Harvard, West Boston, and Larz Anderson bridges came in time and this year the Western Avenue and River Street bridges were replaced by bridges of the arched variety. The only remaining obstacle to longer races was the Cottage Farm bridge, which the present bill would change...
...experiment with heat mines on icebergs. After 30 years of ice research, he has concocted a chemical he calls "thermit," nonexplosive, non-inflammable, rendered dangerous only by contact with ice, when it develops intense heat in a few seconds. The plan is to apply "thermit" to Greenland's west coast glaciers, "burn them up" before they break off in the huge chunks so dangerous to Atlantic shipping. Floating bergs will also be attacked, the scientists rowing alongside, planting a heat mine with time fuse, rowing away to observe results...