Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this dilemma would be to call a simultaneous strike of the bituminous fields (Pittsburgh territory). But that is out of the of the question because a derangement of the Union-bituminous fields would simply put money in the pockets of men in the non-Union fields of West Virginia...
...baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality in a History Department of the Far West; or again, upon an editor, reputed as sagacious as he was vigorous; upon a divine, a barrister, a minor college official whose good works had shewn forth his high qualities...
...Navy Department, following experienced judgment forbids further flights out of Etah, Greenland, by the amphibian planes it had detailed to cooperate with Exporer MacMillan in his search for the Fabulous continent, "Crocker Land," which Admiral Peary thought he saw looming up west of craggy Cape Hubbard. (TIME, June...
...many neat squares of green turf and white chalk which the West Side Tennis Court at Forest Hills, Long Island, provides for the game of lawn tennis, there flowered, last week, innumerable figures in white skirts and colored sweaters who arranged themselves in opposing pairs and began to move in the sunlight, forward and back, from side to side, like the bright porcelain dolls of some minute carnival, weaving a country-dance to music no one else could hear. They were the competitors in the Women's National Championship Tournament. At the end of the first day there were...
...absent from among those eight was, reporters thought, a "heart-story." It was 20 years ago, when she was 19, that May Sutton, a California girl who did not permit her gentility to interfere with her agility, or her garments with her respiration, came out of the West to win the Tennis Championships of the U. S. and England. Twice she held the singles championship of the world, three times the U. S. title, married Thomas Bundy, (Bundy held, at the time, the national doubles title with Maurice McLaughlin, "The California Comet," the most spectacular player who ever stepped...