Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South African evidence is the fossilized skull of a six-year-old beast. Professor Raymond Arthur Dart of the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, found the skull five years ago at Taungs, Bechuanaland, near the west border of the Transvaal. He calls it Australopithecus (Southern...
...Army has a National Military Academy at West Point, N. Y. The Navy has a National Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. Why not a National Aviation Academy under a Federal Department of Aeronautics...
...last week by designating both Ford Airport at Dearborn and Grosse Isle Airport near Detroit 15 miles apart. A third gateway for foreign air commerce named last week is Newport, Vt. Thus there are 13 airports of entry in the U. S. - last week's three and Key West, Miami, St. Paul, Albany, San Juan, Seattle, Lake Union (near Seattle), Newark (N. J.), San Diego, Los Angeles (all ports under Los Angeles jurisdiction...
Sued. Tom Mix, cowboy cinemactor, now touring with Sells-Floto Circus; for $400,000; by Zack Miller of 101 Ranch Wild West Shows. Charge: breach of contract (TIME, April...
Died. Charles Forepaugh, 91, of West Berlin, N. J., oldtime circus man (Fore-paugh's Aggregation, Forepaugh & Sells Bros.), "first trainer to place his head in a lion's mouth" (1874); in West Berlin...