Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike LaFollette, Mr. Ladd's political career had been brief. He was a chemist by profession, a son of Maine, educated at the University of Maine. He served for a time as Assistant, then Chief, Chemist of the New York State Experiment Station. Later, he went West and joined the faculty of the North Dakota Agricultural College as Professor of Chemistry and Dean of the School of Chemistry and Pharmacy...
...leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great leader signified. And if they were equally bewildered at the presence of numerous sahibs at the funeral, centuries of submission to authority had taught them to admire its quality...
Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
...thousand spectators shrieked as Harvard and Yale, tied at 5 to 5, swept up and down a field. It was polo-the semi-finals of an intercollegiate tournament entered into by Virginia Military Academy, Pennsylvania Military Academy, Norwich, West Point, Princeton, Harvard, Yale...
Harvard won its match from Yale (6 to 5) and won also (8 to 3) the finals against West Point which had worsted Norwich...