Word: westward
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...years Cambridge has watched the growth, decline, and departure of the Radio School. Yesterday all but a few straggling members packed their sea bags and headed westward to the Great Lakes Training Station...
...many countries from the ninth to the 16th centuries. Of particular interest are two English volumes, the Bestiary of 1187 and the Windmill Psalter of a century later. A Greek Gospel represents the second Golden Age of Byzantium, while two Armenian folios illustrate the eastward and westward spread of that culture. Scenes in France, Flanders, and Germany are depicted in a Spanish manuscript, which incidentally traces Celtic influences on that peninsula. Italy is represented in the manuscripts with a Martyrology and a Gospel of Mathilda of Tuscany...
Should this be the eventuality realized, it is clear that the great current of munitions and material would cease flowing westward from Vladivostock. An attack on Hawaii, Panama and Seattle would stop that current flowing from our Atlantic ports eastward. The world conflagration would have reached its height and we should be in the fire...
Toward the afternoon the wind shifted to westward and moderated somewhat, so that the men were able to find a half-mile or so or smooth water on the opposite side of the river. The University and Freshman crews were given only one or two racing starts and sent in to the boathouse. The four-oars, however, were matched in two brushes, both of which were won by the University crew. When tried out against the eight in a start, the University four got away a little the faster, rowing splendidly at a high stroke...
...this country and to approach the excellency of many of those in Germany, the country which leads the world in the study of the science of chemistry. The site of these buildings will have a front of 300 feet on the west side of Divinity avenue, and will extend westward towards Oxford street for about 400 feet...