Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear to venerable generals destined to die in bed are the largest and showiest Zeiss field telescopes. Squinting through his on Ethiopia's Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
Long-heralded Italian drives got under way fortnight ago on the Northern Front and Southern Front, but orders which considerably mystified correspondents last week stopped both in their tracks. At the headquarters of Old de Bono rumors were thicker than gnats. Some correspondents cabled that a camel corps of 20,000 men was being organized in the southwestern corner of Eritrea for a dash, not at any of the main Ethiopian positions but at Britain's "sphere of influence" in the general direction of Lake Tana...
...rest of the British Empire. Son of an English vicar, Sir Selwyn won intramural fame as a classical scholar at Cambridge, spent four years as a humble schoolmaster before entering the British colonial service in Nigeria in 1906. While in West Africa he rose from Assistant Resident, Northern Nigeria to Director of Education of the Southern Provinces. By last week he was safe in comfortable anonymity as King George's representative in St. Vincent, British West Indies. Last week clamorous cables had thrust Governor Grier and his miniscule island into world headlines, sent a British survey ship scudding...
Died. William Irwin Grubb, 73, Judge of the Northern District of Alabama since 1909; suddenly, of a heart attack; in Birmingham. A self-styled Democrat, he was a comfort to the Republican Administrations of the 1920's by his severity with dry law violators, grew famed when he turned a cold judicial eye on the New Deal, pronounced NRA unconstitutional (TIME, Nov. 12, 1934), ruled TVA power sales illegal (TIME...
...mean temperature of Mars is 48 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature which has great fluctuations from summer to winter. Severe as these are, they do not exceed those of Northern Canada in the Yokon district. Thus weather conditions did not preclude life...