Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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India, Too. At Lucknow was held a conference, the first in Northern India's church history, to discuss the fusion of the United Church of Northern India, Methodist Episcopal Church, English Baptist Church, Disciples of Christ (American and Australian), Church of Brethren and Wesleyan Methodist Church. "Informal and unofficial" representatives of the Anglican Church were present...
...Ocean between Guam and New Guinea. Although a partial phase of the eclipse was visible in parts of Africa, southern Asia and a large part of Oceania, totality (where the full shadow of the moon fell upon the earth's surface) was over the ocean except on the northern tip of Sumatra, a segment of the Malay Peninsula, the southern tip of Siam and a few Philippine Islands. At the centre of the track the maximum duration of the eclipse was about five minutes, with duration decreasing at each...
...informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana's Broussard, the undecided Senator, a Democrat. "Nose-Holding." Southern Democrats could give the condition of the cotton planters as their reason for voting an unDemocratic subsidy, which is what the debenture plan amounts to. But Northern, city Democrats could give as their only reason a partisan desire to put President Hoover in a hole. As in 1924, they found themselves playing catspaw for the Progressive Republicans. New York's Copeland, for example, said he would vote for the debenture plan, but "hold his nose" while he did so. Shifter...
Similar tornadoes twisted over the face of the land elsewhere last week, all evidently offspring of a large cyclonic disturbance which started over northern Texas and swept northeast. In Arkansas, eight persons were blown to death...
...months ago the insurrectos held the northern half of Mexico. Then they were forced back into their base of operations, the State of Sonora (TIME,, April 22), where U. S. citizens go to get hard drinks and easy divorces. Weeping bitterly last week Governor Fausto Topete of Sonora ordered the insurrecto flag hauled down, then fled across the invisible line which divides Nogales, Sonora, from Nogales, Ariz. The rebel Commander-in-chief, General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, was deserted by the last 1,000 of his original army of 20,000 men and vanished as a hunted fugitive into the mountains...