Word: northern
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Colonel Furlong is an artist by profession and has lived a life of remarkable activity, not only in the western section of the United States, but in all parts of the world. It was in 1904, while exploring the northern part of Africa, that Mr. Furlong discovered the wreck of the United States frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli harbor, where it had been since it was sunk by Lieutenant Stephen Decatur of the American Navy just one hundred years before...
Dissolution. At a meeting of the Privy Council, presided over by the King, the royal proclamation dissolving Parliament was signed, sealed and delivered. The fifth‡ Parliament of King George V and the second Parliament of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...
...House of Lords to hear the Royal Assent given to the bill, the full title of which is the Irish Free State (Confirmation of Agreement) Bill. The measure became a law of the land, a law by which the Government at London is empowered to appoint a commissioner for Northern Ireland on the Boundary Commission...
...Belfast, Sir James Craig, Premier of Northern Ireland, sounded an ominous note when he declared, in a speech, that, if the decision of the Boundary Commission were unacceptable to the Ulster Parliament and no other honorable solution could be found, he would resign, place himself at the head of the people as their chosen leader to defend any territory which the Boundary Commission might wish to filch from them...
...about his former chief: "In Austin, he fought with political beasts from almost the beginning to the close of his illustrious career. He overcame them by wisdom, persistence, high idealism and personal charm. The qualities which won in the Southern give great promise of a like wining in the Northern field...