Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believed to have originated in Asia because Asia is the oldest continuously dry land in the world; because climate and topography were ideal there for the development of the dawnman; because the glacial ice ages of Europe missed this area. Westward and eastward from Gobi probably traveled those hairy primates whose descendants are now called Smith, Karpetsky, Hop Lee, Seraphino...
Although the pristine militancy of student government in the larger eastern colleges is now subdued, the idea's soul goes marching on, and westward. At the University of California, where it flourishes in full flower, the student council found Editor James F. Wickizer of the California Daily Bruin guilty of treason to the cause in "not conforming to the policy of constructive criticism, particularly toward the administration, which has been laid down by the council." The penalty named for further infraction of this rule was removal from office...
...westward-bound liner Dresden Mrs. Koehl and Mrs. Fitzmaurice started an eventful voyage...
...first road performance of the show took place on Saturday, April 7, at the Academy of Music in Northampton. Immediately following the performance the cast boarded the train, traveling westward all the following day to Chicago...
Hailed before the Equity Council to explain why she had deserted the road company of Her Cardboard Lover, why she had lounged in Milwaukee and then returned to Manhattan while her show went westward without her, Actress Jeanne Eagels languidly stated her defense. She had been ill, she said, and had not been able to appear. The producers, Gilbert Miller and Albert Herman Woods, should have hired an understudy...