Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting comparison with the German situation is found in the Olympic trials for the Los Angeles games when negroes were net permitted to participate in the semi-finals which were held in the South and the only colored entries qualified in Northern trials. There was no protest from any foreign delegation at that time, however...
...miles of line. Associated Railways proposed to parcel out the rest for the partitioning carriers to operate?429 mi. to either Chicago Great Western or Milwaukee; 197 mi. to Burlington; 140 mi. to Chicago & North Western; 92 mi. to Rock Island; 47 mi. to Great Northern. In addition there are several proposals for joint operation, some of which include Illinois Central and Soo Line...
...Orange Free State has been the location of the southern hemisphere station of the University Observatory since 1927, previous to which time the observatory "down underneath" was situated in Peru. Photographs of the southern sky are regularly sent here to supplement those taken of the northern heavens at the Cambridge and Oak Ridge stations...
...crust melts. The continental masses sink deeper into this dense, viscous pool, which in turn moves sideways, bulging and rifting ocean floors, allowing heat to escape. Then the cycle begins again. Wegener of Germany proposed that two great continents, Gondwanaland in the Southern Hemisphere and Eurasia in the Northern, cracked and sundered, slid like cakes of ice over the hot sub-crustal pool to form the present continents. Evidence: the coastlines of Western Europe and Africa and those of Eastern, North and South America almost fit like jigsaw puzzle pieces; similar fossils on the two sides seem to be remains...
Southern novelists from Stark Young to Erskine Caldwell have written of small sections of their native regions, but have attempted no comprehensive pictures of Southern society as a whole. It has remained for Frederick Wight. Northern portrait painter turned Southern novelist, to offer a long (634 pages), ambitious book in which almost all classes and degrees of Southerners-impoverished blue bloods, fox hunting pretenders, millhands, Negroes, intellectuals-are conscientiously fitted into the fictional picture. The result is somewhat reminiscent of an old-fashioned tableau, with symbolic figures representing Poverty lurking miserably on one side of the stage while heedless Wealth...