Word: northeasters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Screaming northeast, the Taifu swept on Kyoto, tumbled 17 more flimsy primary schools, of which one caught fire and incinerated the children. Then it curved toward the north, narrowly missed shivering Tokyo, and spent itself in, the Sea of Japan...
...wondered where to put the 200-inch telescope for which a 20-ton mirror was poured last spring (TIME, April 2) and for which another mirror will be cast this autumn or winter. Last week Caltech announced that the colossus would be housed on Palomar Mountain, 80 mi. northeast of San Diego, which is neither too close to the sea (fog and clouds) nor to the desert (heat radiation...
...different was the cruise of the Soviet icebreaker Krassin, which steamed out of Leningrad last March, landed last week at Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged...
...acres. But they also found that on each of those farms were littered anywhere from a few hundred to 6,000 or more pigs a year; that they were nourished on the succulent garbage of Boston and sold when six or eight weeks old to farmers throughout the Northeast...
...Asmar, 50 mi. northeast of Bagdad, other Oriental Institute diggers turned up stone statues of the "Lord of Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...