Word: north
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Livers & lights were scared out of people in North Arlington, N. J. when a 3-in. "dud" shell, buried in a vacant lot since it landed there in 1917 after the explosion of a shipment destined for Russia from the Canadian Car & Foundry works, blew up when overheated by a Sunday bonfire...
...True North" is the direction in which one points to the North Pole, but compass needles point in the direction of the magnetic pole, which is on the Boothia Peninsula in Northern Canada. Hence, only when a compass is roughly on a prolongation of the line from the geographical pole to the magnetic pole does it point true north. From other points in the world the needle, pointing to magnetic north, makes an angle with true north, and that angle mariners call variation. In the Pacific Ocean the needle points as much as 30° east of the geographical pole...
...tournaments the average winning score was eight below par. It took a nine-below-par 279 to win the Masters Tournament at Augusta, one of the toughest tests of golfing skill on the North American continent...
...modern highway follows the historic roads to Oregon all the way. The wagon trains of a century ago ranged over the valleys to get out of ruts and dust; in some places the Oregon Trail was 20 miles wide. But US 30, following the long curves on the north bank of the Platte River across Nebraska, climbing on its oiled roadbed to cross the Laramie Mountains of Wyoming, swinging north past the ghost towns and hot springs of Idaho, most nearly follows the route of the greatest mass migration in U. S. history: almost every mile...
Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina in the evening's other address on "The Present Situation in Europe," counsellor isolation...