Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glorify his family and achievements. Closely allied to it are the twelve proofs of subjects from Hans Holbein's "Dance of Death", which make the set in the Fogg Museum one of the few full ones in the world. The "Dance of Death" was a favorite subject in the north of Europe during the Middle Ages, and Holbein's series of woodcuts, his most important work in this style, in one of the finest representations...
...indignant young man and a genial, flabby-handed oldster conferred, last week in the Prime Minister's Room of the House of Commons, without witnesses, without prior notice to the press. Edward of Wales told Stanley Baldwin about his recent tour of the North English coal fields, described scenes of bitter misery and awful squalor which had caused H. R. H. to exclaim (TIME, Feb. 11): "This is ghastly! I never thought things were so bad!" "A ghastly mess. . . ." Presumably the heir to the throne used equally strong language, last week, to the Prime Minister. What would Stanley Baldwin...
Oldster Baldwin did nothing overt, last week, but presently the press was informed that youngster Wales would not make his announced trip to South Wales, where the poverty and near famine of unemployed miners is even more notorious than in the North. Rightly or wrongly correspondents thought that the Prime Minister's large, flabby hand had stayed the Prince...
...October, North and South American copper producers, who produce about 80% of the world's supply, had an output of 149,200 tons of refined metal. The domestic demand in October was 100,400 tons, and 54,992 tons were exported. In November the output was 155,448 tons while domestic plus export demand totaled approximately 149,000 tons. Consumption has so closely equalled production that on Dec. i, reserve stocks of refined copper were down to 52,153 tons-less than a two-week supply. Nearly every U. S. copper refinery is running at capacity, domestic demand shows...
...flight of General Nobile and felt the sudden silence of his craft, "The Italia," and traced day by day the rescue effort, knew somehow that there was a Russian boat called an ice-breaker and named "Krassin," which reminded many only of some wild drink, beating her way north among the floes. Perhaps there was in the minds of some a sense of incongruity that a Soviet ship, owned by a government which most people think is the enemy of mankind, should be on a mission of mercy...