Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Look quickly towards the west. Rushing from the horizon the shadow passes from west to east at a speed of two thousand miles an hour...
This will be the poloists'' first contest since they crushed the West Point team last Saturday by the score of 16 to 5. If the team retains the form it showed against the Cadets they should have little trouble in disposing of the artillery team. They will be handicapped, however, by the loss of Captain Kent who will be unable to see action because of an injury to his hand received in the Army clash. Coach Clark expects to shift R. A. Pinkerton '27 from number one to back and put F. D. Stranahan Jr. '26 in Pinkerton's place...
...early development of the United States was unhampered by the national of Europe, who were too busily engaged in struggles among themselves to molest the rising young country in the west, according to Colonel Kilbourne. By the time they had settled their own difficulties, this country had just emerged from the Civil War with an unequalled military and naval machine, and no national in the world dared to attack us. Since that time, he said, we have enjoyed comparative peace because of the strength of our latent resources...
...situation in the Pacific is just as strong, he declared. "A major attack from the west against the canal would be a 'strategic absurdity' as long as we held Hawaii," he said, "unless the attacking national had an ally on the west coast of South America." The possibilities of such an alliance were very remote, in his opinion, because of the improved relations between South America and the United States which have existed since the government paid a large sum of money to Colombia for the loss of Panama...
Chief Operator H. P. Thomas '25, under whose supervision the record-breaking work has been carried out, said that Cuba, Mexico, England, the west coast of the United States and all districts of the country had been worked during the station's first week of operation...