Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable collection of objects used by the Yakuts, a tribe of northern Siberia, has recently been acquired by the department of Archaeology and Ethnology for the Peabody Museum...
Social inferiority was the spark which set off the dormant genius of Rousseau; social inferiority, acting in like manner, is fanning the slumbering fires of racial expression in the negro. The Southern negro is touched off by his more aggressive Northern brother, and a total "risorgimento" of the race ensues...
...Spain exercises over a strip of the northern coastline of Morocco, known as the Spanish zone, a Protectorate in the name of Sultan Mulai Yusef 17th of his dynasty. 36th lineal descendant of Ali, the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law He is known to his subjects as Aimr-el-Mumemn, meaning Prince of True : Believers...
Parliament returned to the Palace of Westminter to pass a bill to enable the Government to appoint a commissioner for Northern Ireland on the Irish Boundary Commission (TIME, Sept. 29). Parliament will adjourn after this business has been settled and will meet again...
...Parliamentary position of this bill was most obscure. The Conservatives, sympathetic and bound by promises to the Ulsterites (people of Northern Ireland), are certain to move rejection of the bill; but the Liberals have already intimated that they will support the Government which means that it is sure to be passed in the Commons. To prevent passage of the bill, the Lords would have to move rejection and send the bill back to the Commons; and, as the Conservatives are in a majority in the Upper House, the motion would be sure to be carried if the latter voted...