Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will land at Naples, spend several days there, and then go on to Rome. After a stay of six days in Rome, which will be spent in visiting various points of historical interest, the party will go to Florence, and then to various other industrial and intellectual centers of Northern Italy. Three days will be spent in Florence, going through the various art galleries, and visiting the Cathedral and other famous buildings. In Ravenna a bronze wreath, sent by the American Dante Committee, as a tribute from the institutions of learning in the United States on the six hundredth anniversary...
These latter are the main stations on the Labrador Coast; between them are dotted smaller villages, sometimes with only a nurse in charge of the medical work. Indian Harbor is the most northern station of the Grenfell Mission and is in charge of Dr. Paddon...
...work of a day laborer may seem a rather arduous way to spend one's vacation but ask any of Dr. Grenfell's boys if the romance of the rocky coast with its northern lights, the open life and the satisfaction of having done something for the cause of bringing life and happiness to the frozen north does not more than counterbalance the tedious lifting or lame muscles which one is apt to receive after the first day's work...
...Most people suppose that the Arctic Circle is extremely could, but it really has a temperature which is about the same as northern Montana in the winter time. In the plains just east of the Rocky Mountains in Alaska for instance, there is no trace of glaciation, while it is known that at one time, all of New England was covered by an immense ice-sheet...
...itinerary of the Southern trip will include a four of the northern part of Virginia with probable matches with the Chevy Chase Country Club at Washington, the University of Virginia, Norfolk, and others yet to be arranged, Last year's trip was thoroughly successful, only one individual match being lost on the ontire trip...