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Word: northern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Minnesota v. Washington (Sat. 3:45 p.m., NBC-Blue, CBS). Season's first big Northern intersectional football game, from Memorial Stadium, Minneapolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Another unusual star was described to the American Astronomical Society meeting at Ann Arbor last week, by young Dr. Ralph B. Baldwin of the University of Pennsylvania. Gamma, of the constellation Cassiopeia (visible in the Northern hemisphere), is 400 times brighter than the sun, nearly five times as hot. Year ago Gamma began to grow brighter, like a nova, or exploding star. Astronomers were sure that the increased brilliance would be accompanied by generation of additional heat, but they were mistaken. For the temperature of Gamma dropped from 28,800° F. to 15,660°. Last May the star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Unpredictable Stars | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...meteorological map they resemble a mass of partly coiled snakes. Although the greater area of each tongue remains at uniform specific humidities, the extremities tend to undergo changes. At the southern ends of the dry tongues heat is lost and dry air descends from the upper regions. The northern ends of the wet tongues tend to condense, pass mois ture to the dry tongues. As the tongues exchange heat and moisture and as atmospheric currents follow the rotation of the earth, transverse currents of air are generated. Theoretically these currents cut across the more stable air tongues, dividing each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wets v. Drys | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

With its center University Hall the University roughly extends North and South. The central portion, comprising the Yard, contains mostly the homes of the Freshmen and the college classrooms. The northern third houses the science departments and many of the Graduate Schools South of the Yard are the upperclass dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE NAVIGATION SET FORTH IN EASY LESSONS | 9/23/1938 | See Source »

...Stoyan, the gang's spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan was that a gang of Balkan peasants could lay a track good enough to carry the Northern Pacific's Fast Mail. In his bunk-car he got together a library consisting of a grammar and an unabridged Webster, in three snowbound winters practically memorized them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Refreshing Immigrant | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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