Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William E. Hull of Illinois, shortly to sail for Buenos Aires as a member of the Pan-American Highway Commission; John Hays Hammond Jr., inventor (to discuss commercial aviation-see AERONAUTICS) ; Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent; Brigadier General Lord, Director of the Budget; .Secretary Hoover, recently returned from the West, to present Mr. Coolidge with an invitation to visit California; Senator George H. Moses...
...from the far West, since 97% of the 430,000 acres of public lands are in eleven Western states...
Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail was born at Carcassonne 69 years ago. In 1877 he was appointed from St. Cyr, French West Point, a sous-liéutenant. In the Army his career was by no means brilliant. He was promoted by regular stages until 1914, when he was made a divisional general...
...East there are still many who go to college because of athletics or social life or because it is 'the thing to do.' That does not obtain so much in the West. For instance, in one small Ohio college at which I lectured, 90% of the boy students were working their way through school...
...Francisco, the U. S. minesweeper Ortolan puffed through the Golden Gate bearing rare birds, plants, fishes, reptiles, fossils, insects collected by field workers of the California Academy of Sciences in the Revillagigedo Islands (400 mi. west of Mexican mainland in Lat. 19° N.). Dr. G. Dallao Hanna exhibited seeds of a new unnamed, unclassified fruit the size and shape of a ripe olive but sweet of pulp; related that herds of whales, chiefly mothers and their calves, sport in those waters today as they did when their numbers earned for the locality, from old-time mariners, the name...