Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume the gavel in the absence of the Vice President, and to introduce a resolution "authorizing the Secretary of War to receive for instruction at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point two Siamese subjects, to be designated hereafter by the Government; of Siam...
...Sacred College of his scarlet robed Cardinals, sat white-clad Pius XI, once Achille Ratti, but since Feb. 12, 1922, His Holiness the Pope, Bishop of Rome an Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of Saint Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the Temporal Dominions of the Holy Roman Church...
...clear winter midnight last week, a patrolman standing in the shadow of a doorway on West 42nd St., Manhattan, saw a figure proceeding irregularly toward him, now with a kittenish skip, now with a wobbling adaptation of a popular dance-step, now with a stride that sagged curiously sideways. The patrolman stepped out of shadow. The night-wanderer raised a hand in genial recognition...
...Resolved. That the Amateur Law be enforced in all intercollegiate athletic competitions", has been arranged. The affirmative will be upheld by Major J. L. Griffith, director of the Western Conference, who has been one of the fore most opponents to undergraduates leaving colleges for professional ranks in the Middle West...
...construction camps are being reached for the first time. Not least important of the results achieved is the Cannibalization of foreigners. In the United States, an adaption and extension of the method might well be applied to harvest hands and public utility laborers of the West. Among migratory workmen, conditions approximating the crudity of the frontier are common. With both natives and to eigners, university men could be as successful in distributing reading matter and developing a healthy social life in America as in Canada...