Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that moment, an Emperor of the East was lifting a distinguished gentleman of an ancient oriental family to the high rank of Ambassador, was sending him to the U. S. to cope with the problem of how the East may understand the West. The U. S. Secre- tary of State pondered, for it rested with him to make the stay of this new Ambassador in a Western country a success in point of amity-a greater success than the mission of the oriental Ambassador's predecessor, who had blundered badly by using threatening language to the Senate...
There are some striking disadvantages in the practice of the Court in rendering decisions only in litigated cases. In 1820, Congress passed a law, the Missouri Compromise, which provided that all new states admitted to the Union west of Missouri and north of 36° 30' should be free. Later-37 years later-the Supreme Court nullified that compromise in the Dred Scott case which helped to precipitate the Civil War. Many other laws have thus hung in the balance between constitutionality and unconstitutionality for years at a time, always with the possibility of their being overruled after much...
With these words the British Raj* turned over the State of Savantvadi- small State south of Bombay on the west coast of India-to Bapusaheb Bhosie, Indian Prince educated in England, who henceforth becomes the Sardesai (Ruler) of Savantvadi...
This was the dream of Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle: Some 2,000 acres of meadow and rough woodland just west of Hartford, Conn., cut by boiling trout streams, bordered by the Farmington River. Built thereon, a rough-hewn stone village, copied after old Colonial villages, with heavy-timbered gables, hand-joined by wooden pegs; with split-oak roof-trees, slate-slabbed roofs and other backwoods atmosphere. In this village, a population of hardy schoolboys, citizen-students of Avon College (a school and junior college, preparatory to universities...
...Wrote a West Virginia Baptist: "I pray God that your fine courage may continue to inspire your pen on these vital subjects...