Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Point 14, Notre Dame...
...Curle has been an extensive traveller in South America, the West Indies, Africa, the Near East, Burma, the Malay States, and in other parts of the world. His private collection of manuscripts connected with Conrad and Hudson is unique. He is a sportsman and author as well, among the books he has written being "Joseph Conrad: a Study", "Aspects of George Meredith", "Into the East", "Wanderers", "Shadows Out of the Crowd", and other volumes...
...Latitude 37.15 North: Longitude 59.03 West. We are adrift in an open boat with only a little food and water. This is last hope of five survivors of schooner Norka, eighth month, second day. H. M., M. V. W., S. L. W., L. M. W., R. E. L. W. Notify Donald Murchie, Dedham, Mass...
...will become a Walter Johnson or a Paderewski or a Chaliapin; why should the leaders in every profession, great or small, attempt to meet the muses on equal terms? The answer is apparent. One has but to read the published prattle of those who from East and West, from North and South respond to the pull of the printed page...
Underwood Speech. For the instruction of the assembly Senator Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama drew an imaginary line from Baltimore to San Francisco, and called attention to the fact that every member of the Interstate Commerce Commission hails from north of that line. "The South and West must be represented," opined Senator Underwood, in advocating that the weaker railroads of the country be amalgamated with the stronger. Such a move, he declared, would make for a stable and prosperous condition among the railways, on the basis of which rates could be determined with fairness to both shipper and carrier...