Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago that an organization was founded in the name of the old secret society of reconstruction days, the Ku Klux Klan. It spread through the South and Southwest, burst across Mason and Dixon's line into Indiana, spread eastward to New England, made some progress in the Middle West and gained a few footholds in the Far West...
...Middle West...
...difficult to reach from the southern part of the state; that the northern part of the state should not be taxed for the extensive improvements needed in the southern part; that the two parts are different climatically and industrially. The proposed dividing line would cross the state east and west from a point on the Atlantic about 40 miles south of St. Augustine, to the lower part of the Suwanee River, which would be the boundary-thence to the Gulf-leaving 33 counties in South Florida and 34 counties in North Florida...
...University foilsmen, fresh from their sensational victory over the Army at West Point last week, will meet three crack swordsmen from the J. Sanford Saltus Club of New York at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Hemonway Gymnasium Sallo d'Armes...
...song, "The Lamp in the West," anyone who will take the trouble to examine it will see that it is a piece of sentimental platitude the music as bad as the words, which is saying a good deal. Mr. Walter Kramer questions the "etiquette" of a Harvard man's making such criticisms of a Yale man's productions, but what have these college-boy partisanships to do with serious matters of artistic beauty where large and vital loyalties are at stake? Suppose a Yale critic were to impugn the taste, which should set up a piece of poetic sentimentality like...