Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the Afro-European one as exactly as the pieces of a picture puzzle. From this interesting phenomenon, he deduced the theory that they had indeed so fitted at one time. Therefore he concluded that the continents were originally one piece of land, and attached Australia to the west coast of Cochin-China to make the picture complete...
...loveliest of the stars, because the calendar devised by his ingenious priests was a Venus calendar; any knowing citizen of that remarkable civilization was aware that five Venus years were practically equivalent to eight sun years, that eight days elapsed between the last appearance of Hesperus in the west and the first appearance of Phosphorus in the east and that the morning of this first appearance in the east was a morning to be feared, since the light of Venus possessed the power to slay. If the last item implies the existence of what we should call superstition among...
...Enchanted Hill. Another sound sample from the West appears with Jack Holt and Florence Vidor. It is the old and always interesting adventure of cattle rustling and shooting, complicated for novelty with airplanes...
...Chrysler Imperial, developing 92 h.p. and designed to travel 80 m.p.h. for buyers occasionally needing spectacular speeds on good roads, as in the Far West...
...West Virginia coal fields], so that when labor troubles come in one field they can haul out of the other. When they get it these great interests will be in a position to whipsaw this country...