Word: northeasterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the squad's final cutting date is set for Nov. 21, the sextet will play Harvard, B.C. and either B.U. or Northeastern in its first practice game on November 17 in Boston. The college teams will each play a period of the match...
...chances of dying of a heart attack if he lives in New York State are more than twice as high as those of a resident of New Mexico. The rates are abnormally high also in several other northeastern states and the District of Columbia. West of the Ohio, the only states equally lethal are California, Louisiana and Nevada. Among women, the rates average less than half those of the men, but the geographical variations, on the whole, follow a similar pattern. Men's death rates from heart disease exceed women's at all ages...
...Nobody paid any attention last July when Congress routinely passed Public Law 887, entitled "Wyandotte Tribe Termination of Federal Supervision." But last week Kansas' Senators and Representatives discovered they should have been listening to the rustling in the woods. Public Law 887 gives the Wyandotte Indian tribe of northeastern Oklahoma full title to two valuable acres of land in the heart of downtown Kansas City, Kans., estimated variously to be worth as much...
...national reserve concessions were said by oilmen to be "money in the bank." Others, although they lay in about 100 ft. of water and 20 or 30 miles out from the present forest of more than 2,000 derricks that stud the lake's northeastern shallows, were highly promising. But the exploration areas that in most cases came packaged with the exploitation concessions were not so much ready wealth as they were another "special advantage" for Venezuela. One reason for suddenly selling new concessions after a dried-up decade is that Venezuela needs to get outlying regions explored...
...student at Boston's Northeastern University polled 1,500 teachers of history and government in 500 U.S. universities to find out how they ranked American Presidents, emerged with results virtually identical to those of LIFE'S 1948 poll conducted by Harvard's Arthur Schlesinger Sr. The top four: Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson. The bottom two: Ulysses S. Grant, Warren G. Harding...