Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stretched over a 40-mile front from Aksum to Aduwa to Adigrat, Italy's Northern Army did not advance last week on its long expected drive into Ethiopia...
...Russia, and his fame the most glamorous when he and his party of 101 were airplane-rescued from the ice-sunk Chelyuskin (TIME, April 13, 1934). Subsequently he almost died of pneumonia. Last week, hale & hearty, this editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia and Chief of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration was back in Leningrad after an air tour of Polar settlements. The ecstasy he offered to eager Communists this time was an elaborate scheme for civilizing their blubber-munching Eskimos...
...Great Northern Sea Route Administrator Schmidt will lure the little slant-eyed brothers out of their igloos, clap them into modern houses. The Schmidt settlements will have bathrooms with hot & cold running water, bakeries with bread popping in & out of ovens on conveyers, a radio network pouring out music and propaganda, libraries. "It is impossible," said the Professor, "to convince them of the advantages of settling down at fur-trading posts so long as there are no bathhouses...
...stole the meat the party had hung for safekeeping between trees. Trophies for the American Museum: three blue Stone Mountain sheep, 200 small mammals. The prize trophies, however, will be divided with the Canadian National Museum : six white, Dlack-tailed mountain sheep of a new variety and eight dark northern elk, first specimens of either (so far as Mr. Goodwin knows) ever brought to civilization...
...Boston with their ladies for their annual Northern meeting last week were most of the members of Miami Beach's famed "Committee of 100," a group of winter residents which the Press with good reason calls the "Millionaires Club." Founded after the 1926 hurricane as a civic body to revive Miami morale, the Committee is now primarily a social organization with about 400 members, meeting occasionally at a member's mansion in the winter and, for the past few years, once each autumn in the North. Three years ago Joseph Early Widener entertained his fellow Miamians at Lynnewood...