Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sloop Restaurationen, loaded with Norwegian Quakers, landed in Manhattan. The immigrants first settled in Orleans County, N. Y., were joined by friends and relatives, moved west to Illinois, gradually spread throughout the Middle West and Northwest...
Munn was a former star lineman of the Nebraska football team, on which Eastman also played for a year before entering the University. During his year of football in the West. Eastman had as a fellow lineman one of Munn's younger brothers, who has since forsaken football for a seat in the Nebraska state legislature...
...collectors appointed for the following entries have still failed to notify the committee in any way as to the amounts which they have collected: Apley Court; Apthorp House; Beck Hall, 31-47; Claverly Senior House; Conant Hall, 3-15; Dana Chambers, 21-34; Divinity Hall; Grays Hall, west entry; Grays Hall, east entry; Holworthy Hall, west entry; Holyoke House, 26-36; 5 Linden Street; 59 Mt. Auburn Street; 68 Mt. Auburn Street; Persis Smith Hall, entries A and B; Randolph Hall, 9-18; Standish Hall, entries A and B; Thayer Hall, 11-20; Walter Hastings Hall, first and fourth entries...
...this comedy, that is advertised as the "hit of the season," the symptoms of the infirmity are laid bare before the audience. Every detail of the eternal triangle, of love in the Middle West, of hideous interior furnishings, of efficient business methods, of small-town family life, is ready for you if you are suffering from the disease. If, on the other hand, you are one of the sophisticates who shrug a shoulder at such things, you will probably find the play as effective a satire as "Main Street" or 'Beggar on Horseback." The only flaw in our enjoyment...
...photography, especially moving pictures, are important. Bromides of silver and potassium are essential to their welfare. Yes, if ethyl motor fluids are important; if certain medical sedatives are important. The world is short of bromine, and the chief sources?salt deposits in Prussian Saxony, brines in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Chile ?do not bid fair to replenish the supply...