Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was before 1890. The South was more than 36% illiterate. Today the South is less than 5% illiterate. Hookworm is no more. Industry is doing well -booming, if you ask the people of North Carolina. Schools are many and clean and well-manned. Universities are larger and prouder...
There is little originality in the writings and speeches of Dr. Alderman. It is in fervor and organizing ability that he excels. As president of the University of North Carolina (1896-1900), he not only whipped it up to New England standards but also reorganized around it the public schools of the state. Then he became president of Tulane University (New Orleans) and in 1904 went to the University of Virginia to be president, an office he still holds...
Twelve men* had spanned the North Atlantic in heavier-than-air machines: no woman had succeeded. Great interest, therefore, centered on the flight of Miss Amelia ("Lady Lindy") Earhart (TIME, June 11) when at length her trimotored Fokker Friendship left the water at Trepassey, Newfoundland, headed toward Britain. Would she disappear from sight, sharing the fate of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim ? Would she turn back as Viennese Lilli Dillenz had done? Would she be forced down as was Ruth Elder...
Doubts were resolved, wonder ceased when the wires flashed word from Wales that Pilot Wilmer Stultz had guided the Friendship safely to a landing in the Burry inlet on the north side of the Bristol channel. Observed "Lady Lindy," casually: "We are short of gasoline." She was right. The plane had used the last gallon of fuel...
Ships and planes, heading north, brought food, medicines, snow glasses, gum boots, guns. Unlike Eskimos, Italians cannot trap seals by hand, find it difficult to bag polar bears. Unconfirmed reports said the thiee Arctic pedestrians were safe aboard an ice breaker. Capt. Roald Amundsen, not on speaking terms ,,ith Pilgrim Nobile, forgot personal enmities to lead a rescue expedition...