Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even while Aviators Smith and Bronte were skimming the Pacific, westward bound, a less sensational but no less important event was taking place in Honolulu, chief city and capital of Hawaii. Here was meeting the Institute of Pacific Relations, an unofficial but distinguished gathering of representatives from Japan, from China, from Australia, from Great Britain and from the U. S. The purpose of the conference was the interchange of information and ideas concerning Pacific problems, particularly with respect to relations between the Occidental and Oriental populations in U. S. and British insular possessions. Special attention was also to be given...
...scarcely a "discovery" in any scientific sense. But it was a theory of much originality. Briefly, the theory was this: that traveling in the direction of the earth's rotation, i.e. eastward, is salubrious; and conversely, westward travel is depressing. Count Tolstoi secured many a traveler's testimonial to bear out his generalization...
...Patrick surrendered his whole attention to the sick man. The train tore westward. The bald, intense man wrote out a telegram to Mrs. Albert Patrick of Marceline...
Shrewd, Mr. Griffin called the attention of Australians to the major defect of Washington, D. C. The city, as originally planned, was to have expanded in concentric rings about the Capitol. But what has happened? Washington has grown so disproportionately westward that the Capitol now clings to the city's eastward fringe. A development so lopsided and undignified, decided Australians, shall not recur at Canberra...
Some will go westward instead...