Word: northeaster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Offer to Northeast Ulster a peace based on local autonomy. Wipe out internal dissension and bitterness. Achieve real peace. Sir Alfred Cope, ex-Under Secretary for Ireland, in Manhattan to arrange for the visit of Mr. Lloyd George this month, said of Ireland: " Ireland is coming along very well. The most important thing I see in the situation at present is the indication that the old antagonism between the North of Ireland and the South is dying out. . . . With Craig at the head of the Government in the North, and Cosgrave directing things in the Free State, Ireland...
...center of Negro population, according to the census of 1920, is three-quarters of a mile northeast of Rising Fawn, Ga., in the extreme northwestern corner of the state. (The center of entire population of the country is near Whitehall in southwestern Indiana.) This indi- cates that the Negro population is spread east-and-west about as the white population, but as a whole is decidedly farther south. Between 1910 and 1920 the center of Negro population moved 9.4 miles east, and 19.4 miles north. Before that, its general trend had always been south- westerly...
Fire destroyed several buildings in the extreme northeast corner of the " Forbidden City" section of Peking, but did no damage to the old Imperial Palace, present residence of the Boy Emperor...
Palestine. The University of Pennsylvania mission at Beisan (the Old Testament Bethshean), 55 miles northeast of Jerusalem, has unearthed substantial Egyptian buildings and inscriptions of Seti I and Rameses II (19th dynasty, about 1366 B. C.), suggesting military occupation of Palestine at that time...
...that might eventually resubject her to Russian authority. Another important difference, intimately related to the Pan-Slav question, is that Czechoslovakia is opposed to the award of Galicia to Poland, because such an arrangement interferes with Czecho-Slovakian plans for a Pan-Slav corridor reaching from Russia in the northeast to Yugo-Slavia in the south...