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Word: westernmost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Land of the Soviets, Russian plane making a leisurely west-to-east world tour, landed on U. S. territory last week, at Altu, westernmost of the Aleutian Islands, 7,000 miles from Moscow whence the plane flew one month ago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago Institute. Perhaps it was his technical facility which gave him the assurance to avoid Europe with its classic, or modern traditions, and to seek a new style under oriental influence. In the East he joined the second Fogg Museum expedition to Tum Huang and Wan Fo Rsia in westernmost China. This gave him an opportunity to observe the magnificence of the early art of China. His other voyages in the East speak for themselves through his works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fine Arts Tutor Reviews Exhibition of Allan Clark Sculpture at New Fogg--Finds Oriental Influences | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...Easternmost tip of the U. S. The westernmost is Cape Flattery, Wash., jutting to sea across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tide-Harnesser | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...high cliff overlooking the trade route he discovered a Buddhist chapel dating back to the 5th century A. D. British and French expeditions which were active in China before the war had failed to discover this chapel. It is, with one exception, the westernmost example of North Wei culture. More of its origin Mr, Warner believes can be determined by the interpretation by other authorities at Harvard of a stone slab found nearby and which he brought back with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARNER FINDS OLDEST OF BUDDHIST CHAPELS | 5/27/1924 | See Source »

...westernmost edge of the country, having completed something more than half of his great tour of the nation and having served something more than half of his term of office, President Harding died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The End | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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