Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March from the Court's robing room is a thing of simple grandeur never witnessed in its entirety save by members of the Court and their Maker. Out of the robing room on the west of the Capitol's central public corridor, across the corridor between heavy red-plush ropes held by ununiformed attendants, the Justices pass into and through a private corridor to a door at the northeast corner of their Chamber. To and through this door they march in a peculiar order. They must sit at the bench in the order of their seniority, with juniors...
Your issue of the third of October contained the rumor that the so called Harvard Socialist Club or members of that organization intend to stage an Anti War, Anti Army, Anti West Point demonstration. For obvious reasons such a demonstration at such a time would be in extreme bad taste. In some measure the University acts as host to West Point, the action of these socialists, however much publicity it might gain them, would add little to Harvard's reputation for sportsmanship...
Among the Socialistic and notorious Harvard students circulates the rumour that on the day of the Army game the Stadium will see a demonstration against war, the Army, and West Point. Whether the demonstration will be vocal or pictorial or consist merely of the presence of the notorious students in the Stadium could not be learned at a late hour last night...
...inclemency of the weather yesterday, the H. A. A. will extend the time for applications for tickets to the West Point and Dartmouth games until 6 o'clock this afternoon. This announcement was made early yesterday afternoon, when several hundred undergraduates were forced to stand in the rain waiting to enter their applications...
Second idea was to specialize in municipal bonds. In 1867 Mr. Harris had traveled through the south and west, had seen countless small but growing towns and cities. Farsighted, he looked ahead, saw the school houses, water works, roads, bridges, sewage plants and other public works of the future. Shrewd, he saw also the billions of dollars in bond issues that these communities would need. "I did not tell even my brother my estimates," he once said, "for fear he would think I was out of my head...