Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...North Sea tossed and heaved. The tides rose ominously. Waves slapped and pounded the stone dykes at Zeebrugge and Nieuport. An Eastern wind blew foam from the sea onto the land...
...Drummond Hay,* Hearst correspondent, who will be the first woman ever to have made such a crossing. During the trial flight she wrote: "It is a strange sensation, sleeping in cabins attached to gas bags swinging 7,000 feet in the air between the full moon and the glassy North Sea. . . . We have a million cubic feet of gas but no heat. . . . Merciless cold driving through the canvas walls of this flying tent. ... I have visualized myself gracefully draped over a saloon window ledge romantically viewing the moonlit sky. The men . . . have reminded each other not to forget evening jackets...
...Bureau: "Use me where I can do the most good." He took his sore finger and throat to a doctor, spent an afternoon at the horse races and then started off stumping again. After a side trip into Indiana, his itinerary called for a swing through the fermenting Northwest-North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin...
...recent issue of the "North American Review," a writer arrives at the surprising conclusion that the parents of John Harvard were probably first brought together by William Shakespere. Following the clue offered by the circumstances that Miss Katherine Rogers lived near the home of Shakespere in Stratford and Robert Harvard lived in London, between which city and Stratford William Shakespere was the only "antecedent link" that research has brought to light, this writer continues that the poet probably invited his London friend Robert Harvard to Stratford. There he may have introduced this friend to Miss Rogers, whom Shakespere surely knew...
...concentrating its attack in the second period, the Crimson eleven a massed a total of 20 points to turn back the invasion of an overrated North Caroline team in Saturday's encounter in the Stadium. The contest was the second of the season, and as such revealed a development and a degree of power which gives indication of an epic battle when the veteran cadet eleven meets the Crimson next Saturday...