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Word: westing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also gave a dinner. William devoted his efforts to religion, Charles to politics. Charles said to reporters: "I see no plan which will give the Democratic Party the support of a majority of votes in the East without setting it up against the desires of the voters of the West and South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: The Bryans ad Interim | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...Significance. Under and over the chatter of the busy nation, behind business-noise and play-noise, are heard the real voices of the continent? Frost and Robinson in New England, Sandburg and Lindsay in the Midwest. The Far West has been silent since Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, John Muir. Now Jeffers is heard, unmistakably powerful, individual, a true racial poet chanting on his high Pacific headland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pacific Headlands | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...skies. It struck first in Missouri, touched Biehle and Annapolis, hurdled the Mississippi River into Illinois, in the unaccountable way of such storms, and struck about five miles inland at Murphysboro. For the next 30 miles, it seems to have swept on most fiercely through De Soto, Bush, West Frankfort, Parrish, passing about five miles north of Herrin. Then it seems to have stopped again, 20 or 30 miles to McLeansboro and Carmi, crossed the Wabash River into Indiana, promptly demolishing Griffin and razing half of Princeton. Apparently this was done by one tornado or a recurrent one, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tornado | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...failure of the road's earnings to sustain its tremendous capitalization. In part, the bankruptcy can be attributed to one of the greatest gambles ever taken in U. S. railroading?the construction of the 1,400 miles "Puget Sound extension" which carried the road from the Middle West to the Pacific Coast, 15 years ago. Previous to this time, the St. Paul had been a prosperous "granger" road in the Middle West. But James J. Hill and others had pressed their lines to the Coast, and the St. Paul faced the dilemma of perishing slowly for lack of through freight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The St. Paul | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...meeting and Dr. J. J. Vaughn, former medical advisor to the City of Nanchang and the Provincial Court of Kiang-si, will speak of his experiences in China. The Chinese phase of the question will also be discussed by Dr. T. D. Sloan and Dr. P. T. Watson. The West Chinese phase will be taken up by Dr. W. R. Morse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/28/1925 | See Source »

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