Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...irascible temperament obtained for him the sobriquet of " the American Prince of Wales." He said that "America is no place for a lady or gentleman to live in." Asked if he had ever been West, he remarked, "Yes, as far as Sixth Avenue." An African hunt in a steam automobile; a lawsuit for alienating the affections of another man's wife; an escapade during the War; landing in the U. S. with 50 trunks which took him three hours and $1,400 to get by the Customs Officials; a passport seizure by the American Consul in Paris; the importation...
According to the National Geographic Society, Asir is the least known region in the world. At present without any distinct boundaries, Asir is situated on the west coast of Arabia, between Hedjas and Yemen on the Red Sea. It has a population of roughly one million...
...need to do is to unite politically and you can have a thorough cleanup. You will be able to clean out the gunmen in the coal fields, particularly in West Virginia. It is time to get back to the spirit of the Revolutionary fathers...
...possession. The British Government has not altered its general policy of forbidding such " hostile" missionary activity in its colonies, but is willing to consider individual cases. The Governor of the British Gold Coast, in Africa, said that one of the most disastrous results of the war, so far as West Africa was concerned, was the interruption of the excellent work which the Germans had been doing for the natives there. Three German missionaries, two with their wives, are returning to their work, which they are carrying on under the auspices of the United Free Church of Scotland...
...Fogg Art Museum of Harvard has sent an expedition under Langdon Warner, recently of Pennsylvania, to west China to study ancient and medieval Chinese art treasures, including the kiln sites of the Sung dynasty (10th century) and Buddhist rock grottoes of the 5th century. Duncan McDougall, son of the psychologist, is in the party. Other expeditions from Boston, Washington, and Chicago museums are in China, and an American archeological school may be opened at Peking, similar to those at Rome, Athens, Jerusalem. Rubbings, photographs and measurements of early architecture in danger of decay will be taken...