Word: northeasterners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is only one thing more startling than a bolt from the blue, and that is a shock from the earth-to have the earth heave and quiver. An earth shock, of quite respectable intensity, came thus suddenly to startle the northeastern U. S. It was not quite 9:30 in the evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault...
...railway field, the merger movement continues to excite interest. In addition to progress among the Big Four in the Northeastern section of the country, the Southwestern roads, especially Missouri Pacific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Kansas City, Southern and St. Louis & San Francisco, are beginning to entertain serious merger developments. Whatever 1925 proves in trade and industry, little doubt exists that it will be a remarkable year for the railroad business...
...Allen '01 of the University faculty will speak tonight at the Boston Society of Natural History on "Some Ecological Relations of Birds." This is the third of a series of lectures on birds by Dr. Allen under the auspices of the Northeastern Bird Banding Association...
Good English is business English, according to Dean Garner of the Northeastern business school in Chicago. And business English is short and "Kicky". At last the lie is passed to Shakespeare, Browne, and Johnson, and all the other foreigners who talked over the businessman's head: they didn't write good English. The son of the Rotarian may henceforth plead scot-free of Milton: he didn't write good English...
...victory for M. I. T. tonight will be a distinct upset. A season which began with a one-point win from Northeastern and continued for three successive and decisive defeats at the hands of Williams, Amherst and Brown, leaves the odds distinctly with the Crimson in tonight's encounter...