Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jardine, who has made a grand tour of the agricultural West, completed it last week and went to Wisconsin for a rest...
...Marshal Pétain, commissioned from St. Cyr (French West Point) in 1878, specialized in staff work at the Ecole de Guerre. At the beginning of the War he was only a colonel, but his great military genius, first recognized by General Castelanu, rapidly won him merited recognition, promotion and honors. His greatest claim to fame rests upon the heroic defense of Verdun and his skillful handling of mutinous French troops in 1917. Possibly had there been no Pétain, France would, be paying Germany an indemnity...
Beyond the bare announcement of a civil war in Szechwan, largest Chinese Province, which is situate at the extreme west of the Tibetan border, nothing of a positive nature occurred in China or about China or out of it. The crisis, which has been for some weeks in existence (TIME, June 15 et seq.) was still present, but was rapidly taking on a traditional Chinese aspect and becoming stolid, static...
...still they fell in those first and second rounds: deliberate Rudolph Knepper, demon putter of recent Princeton teams, before one L. L. Bredin of Detroit; Chick Evans, onetime monarch of the West, before L. E. Bunning, stout-hearted Chicago business man; James Manion and then Eddie Held, the prides of St. Louis, before Keefe' Carter, Oklahoma boy-champion...
Georgia Amateur. The Georgia Amateur Championship, always a contest between South Georgians used to sand greens and North Georgians raised on grass, was played last week in Columbus, in West Georgia. There the greens are of sleek herbage. There last week North Georgians filled three fourths of the semi-final bracket and all of the finals. With a theatrical flourish, 18-year-old Gene Cook of Atlanta won the title from redoubtable 'Watts Gunn, his clubmate. The B. Jones who reached the semi-final was Benjamin, of Druid Hills Club, Atlanta, and not chubby Robert Tyler Jones Jr., North...