Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changes in the Cabinet after President Coolidge was confirmed in office for four years more by the November election, have been surprised. Only one Cabinet change now appears imminent-the appointment of a successor to Secretary of Agriculture Howard M. Gore, who is to be inaugurated as Governor of West Virginia...
Classmates. Richard Barthelmess, a love story and West Point blend competently into one of the better routine entertainments. The military academy turned out in force, supplied background, students, atmosphere. For those who know West Point only in the Sunday supplement the film is an excellent and animated revue. Mr. Barthelmess plays well as the poor boy who comes to join the Army...
...region of totality, the observer should turn his eyes westward along the earth. He must be careful not to have looked at the sun too much even through smoked glasses, or he will be unable to see the most important developments. Suddenly sweeping in from the West at great speed* will come the great shadow. Without waiting for it to arrive, he should turn to the sun. It will be totally eclipsed...
...seething fireball. This corona casts a ghostly light and exhibits itself around the dark rim of the moon, a glow from the sun at the inner ring, radiating outward in soft tints like a halo. Meanwhile, the sky is darkened and the stars are visible. Near the moon, and west of it, will appear a group of three planets, Venus nearest, then Mercury and farthest Jupiter. To be able to see Mercury with the naked eye is very rare, for its orbit is so near the sun that it is usually obscured by light when the latter...
Away puffed the little steamer, out of Novorossiisk harbor into the West. After 200 miles of steaming, the dark mountains of Crimea loomed to starboard. There lay Balaclava, where the British charged; there Sevastapol, where they used to ship tons of grain from the eastern Steppes. The little steamer heeled off northerly, past Cape Tarkhan, toward the Ukraine, for Odessa...