Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West is Best...
...came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast...
TIME Salem, West Va. New York, N. Y. Feb. 26, 1925 Gentlemen...
...austerity, the rigor, mocking yet exalting man's puny bones, the grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered a competition for the Nebraska Capitol, won it, but overworked, fell ill. A great ceremony was planned for his 55th birthday...
...course is being promoted by several prominent business men of Boston. They have purchased a considerable tract of land, including Weld estate, on the line between Brookline and West Roxbury, on which an 18-hole course has been laid out. Approximately $350,000 have been invested. The stock holders plan to sell shares in the club which will carry with them the privileges of the course and thus avoid the exorbitant initiation fees and annual dues of the ordinary country club...