Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good bet that, in pre-Babylonian days, bookies made money. But, without the services of such modern inventions as Western Union and American Telephone & Telegraph, Moses Annenberg could never have made a fortune selling horse-race information. Rented wires are the arteries of his Nationwide News Service and allied enterprises, which have the cream of the business of sending tips and results to bookmakers, sell to many a newspaper and radio station as well...
America cannot withdraw into the Western Hemisphere without falling into a "shut-off, parochial culture which would inevitably mummify," he maintained. "The fate of our political and economic system and our culture is tied up with the rest of the world...
...action comes after six months of intensive planning by the Committee for Latin-American Scholarships, formed to promote friendship and political solidarity between the United States and the republics of the western hemisphere...
From East & West they came, 55 of them, fattish and full of memories. They had read about this year's Wolverine Express. In three games it had scored 138 points, better than any other major college team in the U. S. And in the Big Ten (Western Conference)-where year in & year out there is more Grade A football played than in any other conference in the country-Michigan, in its second year under onetime Princeton Coach Fritz Crisler, was whizzing toward another championship after five chug-chugging years...
...quarter back named Don Scott and two Brobdingnagian tackles - 225-lb. Jim Daniell and 260-lb. Jim Piccinnini - looked like the No. 1 threat. Considered only fair-to-middling at the start of the season, the Buckeyes sprang the surprise of the Big Ten when they conquered touted North western three weeks ago and followed it by beating Minnesota. In downtown Columbus' Broad & High quarterbacks stopped heckling Coach Francis Schmidt even after the Bucks were defeated 23-to-14 by Ivy Leaguer Cornell last week, began to count the days until November 25 when Ohio State is scheduled...