Word: northern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After teaching history and law at Ohio Northern and Chicago Universities, he was president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio...
...Wilson Observatory in California, and the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago. The phenomena known as sun-spots, or violent gaseous convulsions on the surface of the sun, have been proved to affect radio transmission, seasonal changes, and to be a direct cause of the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights...
With the Civil War fading into legend, the ordinary northern U. S. citizen takes a sentimental attitude toward the South. It is the land of sleepy, gentle plantations. There Cotton is King; white men are colonels; lazy colored men lie on their backs and croon "Massa's in de col', col' groun'" up at a beautiful orange moon; and colored mammies are kissing babies & making pancakes. That conception received last week a rude jolt from Dr. Julius Klein, able chief of the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. At Memphis, Mr. Klein delivered...
Lineup. Chang Tso-lin, onetime "King of Bandits," now Super Tuchun of Manchuria, self-styled All Highest Grand Marshal of China, potent dictator of Northern China, actually in control of Peking...
...area and commanded by a military council of five members (TIME, Oct. 3). Onslaught. For variously attributed reasons, the most popular being Bolshevik machinations, Yen joined forces with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking was threatened by the most powerful military...