Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a pouting lip, the promontory of Northeast Foreland juts from Greenland's poleward face into the Arctic Ocean. Across a 300-mi. gap of ice-choked water lies the intricately indented coast of Svalbard (Spitsbergen). Down between them, on maps, runs a frizzy line enclosing a white blob which cartographers have labeled "unexplored." Reports received in Copenhagen last week indicated the frizzy line would have to be changed. Just inside it, Dr. Lauge Koch, Danish scientist-explorer, had found a chain of mountainous islands...
...deadly 75-mm. guns. Last week the 755 spoke systematically, blew peak and stronghold to ruins. Infantry columns occupied the splintered heights, captured the stunned irreconcilables, finished the first half of the campaign. Then they turned to blow the remainder of the Berbers out of the mountains to the northeast. The French War Ministry announced: "Complete pacification is a matter of hours...
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed...
...seconds before, Mark Billman, Indianapolis driver, had crashed the retaining wall on the northeast turn, crushed his left side. He died after surgeons had amputated...
...Chinese forces would remain south, Japanese north of an imaginary line from Yenking, 45 mi. northwest of Peiping, through Tungchow, 13 mi. east, to Ningho, 30 mi. northeast of Tientsin...