Word: northeasterner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard ways. When he was in Cambridge, England, in 1949, he suggested to Professor de Burgh Daly that they experiment with live giraffes. Daly said, "Bring your own giraffe." This would have been too expensive, so last year Dr. Goetz assembled a veldworthy laboratory and took it to the northeastern Transvaal, which teems with giraffes...
Public demand for flood insurance quickly crests and drops off, most companies find. "Wait six months," said a Boston insurance man. "Even those who suffered losses will begin to feel that it could never happen to them again." Nonetheless, many Northeastern businessmen and politicians are talking about Government-backed insurance as the only solution...
...Marino, the 38-square-mile republic which sits on three prongs of the Apennines in northeastern Italy, is the only country outside the Iron Curtain that has a Red government. A coalition of Communists (17) and Nenni Socialists (14) rules the country against a parliamentary opposition of Demo-Christians (26) and Neo-Fascists (3). The Communist coalition, which won by only 139 votes in 1951, has done its best to make of San Marino a showpiece of Socialist effort. It has built roads, houses, hotels; it has eliminated unemployment, established old-age pensions and given women civic rights...
Every night last week, 16-year-old Lewis Macfarlane, a tall, intent Seattle high-school senior, carefully trained his homemade 8-in. telescope on a northeastern sector of the star-sprinkled sky. Now and then he paused to check his notes with fellow sky-watcher Karl Krienke, 24, a math teacher at Seattle Pacific College. They were compiling a log-speed, appearance, location-on Comet 1955F, and their unmistakable pride came from the fact that they had just discovered the new comet themselves...
...exactly applaud Coach Tracy Borah* of Northeastern College, Sterling, Colo., but he is no hypocrite.'' said the Trib. "Mr. Borah has been using our want ad columns to advertise for football players, which old Northeastern badly needs, having lost four of nine games last year. He has scholarships for 33 football players, 12 wrestlers. 15 track athletes, 15 baseball players and 15 basketball players, which means that more than one-third of the Northeastern enrollment will be getting a free ride...