Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Weeks has recently been on a trip through South America, traveling down the East Coast to Buenos Aires, crossing the Andes and returning via the West Coast...
...Many of them have what seem to be stable governments and are developing physically with great rapidity," he said. "This, I think, applies especially to the Argentine, which, in its physical qualities, is very like our Western claims and which are developed about as our great West was forty or fifty years ago. She has the same general make-up as the United States. She has large cities on her eastern coast, and wide plains stretching to the west which are excellent for cattle raising purposes. She is now rapidly increasing her exports, and is especially thriving in the raising...
...picture. Certain members of the concern held up their hands in tasteful protest but the notion persisted. This is the picture and indeed much better than the title deserves. It is a light comedy about steam heat and tennis courts on the erstwhile supposedly primitive ranches of the West. Richard Dix, good actor, is the star...
...Basil himself was then put on the stand: "I deny under oath that I committed the offense with which I am charged, or that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me . . . I am writing a book dealing with vice conditions in the West End, and had gone to Hyde Park to gather data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon...
...Born at Fairfield, Conn., in 1857, Henry Fairfield Osborn was graduated in 1877 from the College of New Jersey (which became Princeton University in 1896). He accompanied Princeton explorations in the Far West, studied anatomy and histology in Manhattan, biology in Britain with Balfour and Huxley (meeting Darwin there), taught at Princeton until 1890, when he was chosen curator of vertebrate paleontology by the Museum he now heads. He has prosecuted extensive fossil explorations for the Museum, discovering and identifying many lost species (especially reptiles and pachyderms), and building up the largest collection of vertebrate fossils in the world. Among...