Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Because of severe winters there are more cases of tuberculosis in the North than in the South. Yet a higher proportion of Southerners than Northerners die from T.B. every year. Reason: the same harsh winds which often drive Northerners into sick beds also end by toughening them. Southerners living in a calm climate have no chance to develop their forces of resistance...
...Heart disease and diabetes are also more common in the North than in the South. Reason: Northerners must work hard to generate body heat during long cold winters, often overstrain their energy centres. Diabetes, for example, is caused by break-down of the pancreas, an abdominal gland which secretes a hormone responsible for converting sugar into energy. Toxic goitre, which frequently accompanies diabetes, is caused by strain on the thyroid gland, which regulates energy production...
...chilly windswept Peterhead (pop. 15,000) on the North Sea shoulder of Scotland, four directors of the hauling firm of James Sutherland, Ltd. sat dourly at a table in Victoria Stables one day last week. Stout, sixtyish Board Chairman George Birnie Anderson was making a bitter fuss, complaining about the management of the firm's 100-odd busses and vans, of its 200 employes...
...battles. But when Lillie discovered his deception, the only good impulse in his "emphatic and volcanic nature" disappeared. Plodding Captain Colburne saved the family in a raid, avoided in embarrassment the wiles of Lillie's aunt, finally won Lillie-in about the sense that the North won the South...
...wrote two travel books and two reasonably successful novels. In 1856 he married Harriet Silliman Shepard and for the next few years divided his time between New Haven and Charleston, S. C. When Sumter was fired on he escaped from Charleston on the last ship going north, recruited a Connecticut company, captained it, served under Weitzel and Banks in Louisiana, under Sheridan in Virginia, was a major when the war ended. He was in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at Greenville, S. C., when Miss Ravenel's Conversion was published. His service ended...