Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill to construct two federal penal institutions, one a reformatory in the West, one a penitentiary in the Northeast. This bill completed legislation for the Department of Justice's new prison program...
...Canon, "the foundations of St. Pauls [which towers to a height of 365 ft.] are only four and a half feet deep. Beneath the cathedral there is only six feet of earth and then a bed of wet sand twenty feet deep. Springs pass under the cathedral from the northeast to the southwest and keep the sand...
...returned yesterday from a conference at Red Top with the architects. William Platt and Geoffrey Platt of New York City, stated that the new building will be ready by June 1, and that it will be located where Herrick Hall now stands, on a bluff across the railroad tracks northeast of the old Freshman quarters. A two-story frame house on a pillar foundation, it will contain individual bedrooms and a lounge room on the lower floor...
...Yale and Williams prohibition polls were recently censured in the Senate by Horace Taft, brother of the late Chief Justice, on the grounds that they represented only the opinions of the notoriously wet colleges of the northeast. He expressed the hope that the great dry colleges of the country would be heard from, in order that the public might have an opportunity to balance the sentiments of students from the more arid regions of the south and west against the wet east...
...Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor of Weihaiwei on the northeast coast of Shantung Province, faces-across the Yellow Sea-onetime Russian stronghold of Port Arthur. It was leased to Great Britain in 1898 to compensate for Russia's Port and Germany's Tsingtao. No a military watchdog, Weihaiwei has assumed new importance as an aircraft base, busies itself coaling...