Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headlines announce every morning that Yale swimmers have gained another large wet victory in some foreign tank. Dempsey is reported to have challenged almost everybody from Thomas Edison to Andrew Gump. Mrs. Dempsey states that she is still very happy and still unbattered. West Somerville boys, working out in Southern training camps, are said to be displacing Cobb and Ruth. The Boston baseball management says definitely for the first time that both teams will unquestionably win pennants. James James Carbunkle is heralded as the new basketball captain of Siwash, having served faithfully on the team some eight or ten years...
...Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Steamship Corporation (AGWI ) . Against this company, for four years (1917 to 1920) was assessed a tax of $9,913,841, including a penalty of $830,808 for fraud. It was charged that the company was worth $9,909,407 but, by concealing its assets, managed to compromise the tax for $2,600,000- a loss to the Government of more than...
...University polo team will play Yale tonight in New York at the Squadron A Armory in the preliminary round of the intercollegiate indoor polo tournament. Only two other colleges, West Point and Pennsylvania Military College, are represented. These teams will play tonight in Brooklyn...
...first important discovery made by the expedition was a cave-chapel, dated at the sixth century. This was important because of the great carven elephants that stood at each corner of the central care pillar, and because of its situation on the trade route from India and the West...
...trade route from India to China led west of Tibet, since the country of Burma was hard on the traveler. It passed through the ancient province of Gandhara, where there is to be found a trace of the western culture left by Alexander and the traders who followed him. It then bent eastward through what is now Chinese Turkestan, and finally came out into the Kansu province...