Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the direction of the Military Science department, pistol practice will be held at the Waverly Range beginning Monday, and those men proving to be the best shots will be selected for a team to represent the unit in competition with other college units from Princeton, Wisconsin, Missouri, Norwich, West Point, Culver Military--Academy, and possibly other colleges to be announced later...
Having scored decisive victories in its first two matches of the season Against Boston University and M, the University golf team left yesterday afternoon for New York to engage representatives from Columbia this morning, and the University of Pennsylvania this afternoon over the course of the West chester Club at Bye, in the first league contests of the year...
...result that in 1923 no cases of the disease were reported in Mexico, Central America, Ecuador or Peru; an outbreak in Colombia was put under observation; control measures were under way in Northern Brazil and workers were in training to resume study of the disease along the coast of West Africa...
Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...
...NERVOUS WRECK?A farce showing the ever-reliable effect of the West on a man's backbone...