Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Arctic winter and its impossible flying weather only a fortnight off, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan and his fellow Arctic-argonauts (TIME, June 22 et seq.) at Etah, Greenland, last week fumed and fretted at fogs and gales which delayed their work of finding west of them, on Ellesmere Island, a suitable spot for a food and fuel way-station between Etah and Cape Thomas Hubbard (Axel Heiberg Land), from which advance base they were to make search flights still farther west where fabulous "Crocker Land" may or may not await discovery...
...deeper the drill went, the higher rose excitement among New Jersey farmers, realtors from as far west as Ohio, invalids and trippers from nearby Lakewood, piney health resort. Gogetters prepared for a boom, securing options, mapping a town. Sceptics believed it merely the renaissance of a New Jersey joke of five years' standing: "Oil in Ocean County...
Transportation facilities are rapidly being created in the "Dark Continent." The Cape-to-Cairo route of about 5,000 miles by rail and water lacks only 300 miles of railway line. Also, the Benguella railway line from the Katanga copper fields to the African west coast is largely completed, and the unfinished portion is being steadily lessened. Altogether there are 23,000 miles of existing railway mileage in Africa, which provide freight as well as passenger facilities. More and more African railways are used for commerce; in the beginning they were patronized mainly by travelers...
Quebec, once a French province, preserves the statute that was afterward incorporated in the Code Napoleon. Louisiana, a state which, as everyone knows, was part of the great stretch of territory west of the Mississippi sold by Napoleon to President Jefferson in 1803, retains the very provision of the Code...
...second time within a fortnight, a large crowd rose to boo, hiss and deride a national champion. Thus Pugilist William Harrison Dempsey was treated in Los Angeles (TIME, Aug. 17). Thus, last week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour of sturdy driving with...