Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grays: East Entry (5) J.D. Jameson: Middle Entry (10) G. Dwight; West Entry (25) R.G. Norris...
...government of the United States is going to keep foot-free of embarrassing international entanglements, it must look to its motion pictures. Although natives may continue calmly to chew their gum while the man from the Eastern college goes west and beats up fifteen "bad men," foreign countries are growing weary of being misrepresented. Already preliminary protests have arrived...
Departure. The following day Mr. George, accompanied by his wife, daughter and entourage, left the U. S. on board the White Star Liner Majestic. He expressed himself sorry to leave, but hoped that circumstances would permit him soon to return and visit the South and the West. Reporters asked him the time-worn question: "Have you a final message to the American people before you sail? " " Only this," he replied, " I am very sad at leaving this hospitable land and its most warm-hearted people...
...tissues from the body of a patient, or even to samples of his handwriting! The tests may be conducted in absentia with the patient 3,000 miles away. For best results the samples must be taken under certain prescribed conditions?dim light, no red in room, patient facing west! The specimens are placed on aluminum electrodes in a small, round box called a "dynamizer," connected by an elaborate wiring system with a "rheostat dynamizer" for amplifying the reactions, a " vibratory rate rheostat" and a "measuring rheostat" for determining the wave rate "ohmage" of the specimen. These are connected...
...investment bankers are apparently indifferent to the hard things recently said of them in the West. Last week their convention was held in Washington itself, and they were addressed by President Coolidge from the south portico of the White House. The President's remarks were brief and to the point. After declaring that the investment banker performed important functions in American society by encouraging thrift and gathering funds for the commerce and industry of the country, President Coolidge went on to stress the responsibility which these tasks involved and to appeal to the Investment Bankers' Association to drive...