Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interview described as "unfortunate," the General let his own voice ring out. He said that, on the east, Poland has an enemy (Russia); on the west, Poland has an enemy (Germany); and on the north, Poland has an enemy (East Prussia, isolated German province). He pointed out that, from the last two places, Germany could launch an attack upon the Polish corridor (narrow strip of intervening territory leading to the sea), nip it off like a stalk of asparagus in the jaws of a crocodile...
Code of the West. Zane Grey is the prominent name they pinned to this production. To tell his story, they hired Owen Moore, Constance Bennett and a forest fire. Twirling this combination on a fairly familiar Western axis, they revealed an hour or so of highly satisfactory amusement. Miss Bennett plays the Broadway cabaret girl transplanted abruptly to the Western hills. Her lipstick and her silks are misunderstood by the conventional natives. But they go to her cowboy's head and he marries her by force. Their stormy honeymoon is completely surrounded by a forest fire through which they...
South of the White House, the austere, vigilant column that commemorates President Washington pricks the sky, a granite bayonet; west, at the end of the Mall, the Lincoln Memorial dreams above its grave lagoon. Now there is to be another memorial in Washington- one to Theodore Roosevelt. Last week, the Roosevelt Memorial Association appropriated $1,000,000 for this project, invited famed architects, sculptors, landscape designers to compete in submitting designs. Entire freedom was given to the imaginations of the competitors, the one stipulation being that the memorial "shall adequately commemorate the character and significance of President Roosevelt." The site...
...Blind Spot." Explorer MacMillan's plea for this assistance was indeed persuasive. In return for two airplanes, he would try to give the U. S. a new continent. North of Alaska and Siberia, from about 120° West Longitude to about 120° East Longitude, and from the 77th parallel to the North Pole, lies a vast region never explored by man, a "blind spot" on the most modern of maps. In 1906, three years before he reached the Pole, Admiral Peary stood on a cape of Ellesmere Land, looked northwest, swore he could discern, about 120 miles...
...Other evidence of the existence of a large body of land west of Axel Heiberg Land has been "found" in studies of ice formations that seemed to have passed over shoals; in tidal variations observed in Greenland and Alaska; in the mystery surrounding the nesting habitat of certain migratory birds. Should a new continent be discovered, its chief importance might be. 1) for the establishment of air-routes between Europe and Eastern Asia via the Pole; 2) for the land body's influence on North American weather conditions...