Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead, and on the Empress the siren sounded mournful blasts at intervals as it slowed to a halt. Thenceforth Vice-Admiral Sir Dudley North allowed the Royal flotilla to proceed only with extreme caution. In four-and-a-half days it advanced only 172 miles. On the Empress, George and Elizabeth invited all hands to movie shows of travel films and Walt Disney cartoons, got into a discussion over whether icebergs should be called...
...outside record of three victories against four defeats is none too impressive, it should be noted that they had to battle their way through a torrid schedule of five outside matches in nine days against the strongest teams in the East and the last time they lost they pressed North Carolina to the limit before succumbing...
...outside matches, despite the fact that Gilkey won the only test match they have played. The secret of Burt's success is his steadiness and accuracy combined with an extraordinarily fine competitive temperament which has brought him victory over Mattman, Bellis, and Ryder, number one of Miami, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina respectively...
...Will, containing several of the best lyrics in U. S. literature, attracted some attention. A year later he published North of Boston, a "book of people" so full of New England scenery and New England tones of voice that even foreigners could get the lay of the landscape and the hang of its inhabitants. His U. S. reputation thus established by his English success, when Frost returned to the U. S. in 1915 he found himself regarded as a famed American poet. In the next 22 years he received honorary degrees from 13 colleges, was thrice awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
...American poets-in complete disregard of any lesser audience. Going has meant playing the artist more than the man-and winning a public success which he never intended and partly distrusts. Frost did most of his staying in his first three books (A Boy's Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval)-and his later books contain many poems that testify to his ability to stay. But he has written many poems about going, too-poems that unsay the unspoken contract between him and his Muse...