Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strip of Polish territory leading to :he sea, west of the free city of Danzig, which strip separates East Prussia from the rest of Prussia, traversing purely German land...
Some time ago, the union miners in the bituminous coal fields enacted high-wage contracts with the operators. As a result, operating costs in the union soft coal fields shot up; and competition has proved difficult with the non-union fields of West Virginia, where lower costs enable operators to cut prices to consumers...
...monkey the night before she married Tom Buchanan, muttered: "Tell 'em all Daisy's chang' her mind." A certain penniless Navy lieutenant was believed to be swimming out of her emotional past. They gave her a cold bath, she married Buchanan, settled expensively at West Egg, L. I., where soon appeared one lonely, sinister Gatsby, with mounds of mysterious gold, ginny habits and a marked influence on Daisy. He was the lieutenant, of course, still swimming. That he never landed was due to Daisy's baffled withdrawal to the fleshly, marital mainland. Due also to Buchanan...
...Goetz, Ocean City, N. J. Ocean City High 185 21 6.4 6. R. H. Rceve, Chestnut Hill, N. J. Chestnut Hill Academy 185 20 6.2 7. C. G. Jordan, Wilmington, Del. Reel Gymnasium 175 21 6.3 S. D. K. Irmiger, Green Bay, Wis. West Catholie High 168 21 6.1 C. D. Pflug-Felder, Philadelphia, Pa. 115 21 5.6 M. I. T. UNIVERSITY CREW Pos. Name Residence School Wt. Age Ht. B. G. W. Hamblet Jr., Lawrence Lawrence High 165 21 6. 2. C. Valentine, auburndale Newton High 156 22 5.9 3. J. W. Hammond, Wayland Wayland High...
...robbers, obviously a ringleader and his confederate, must have grown tired of twirling their sombreros on a moving picture set, and rushed forth to prove that the West is still a place where the male population is as advertised. Some reports describe the men as escaped convicts from San Quentin Prison, but nobody will believe that. They quite plainly are re-incarnations of the spirit of the James boys, who have set out to recoup their fortunes in the only time-honored and accepted Western method. Easterners travelling in the West have long been under the impression that the only...