Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Major Daly to act in the capacity of football teacher would be limited to his spare time. "Major Daly" he said, "is being welcomed to the University as a crack field artilleryman, a phase of army work which we are stressing, as a Harvard graduate and as a West Point man. Any coaching work will be purely incidental...
...news from out of the West is going to solve the problem of what to do with Memorial Hall. Old "Mem" need no longer be regarded as a deadweight on the shoulders of an otherwise progressive University...
...forced to walk two hundred miles to the nearest enlisting station in order to sign up. He was immediately sent to Flanders, where he served with great distinction, and received his commission as colonel. As soon as peace was declared he returned to his life in the west, which he has now abandoned for a time in order to take up the lecture platform. His services have proved invaluable to the Bureau of Commercial Economics of Washington, under whose auspices he will speak tonight...
...first volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini's Life of Christ. The collection is open to ail creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. Newton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan...
Surely the invention of the limerick was a brilliant piece of originality. Who did it, or why he named the verseform after the country which lies just west of Tipperary, is not known. But the limerick was developed and popularized by Edward Lear 80 or 90 years ago. He was a young artist of 20 who had just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots). The 13th Earl of Derby went up to London thereupon and lured Lear to go down to Knowsley to draw Derby's private menagerie. While there, he wrote some poems for the delectation...