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Word: northern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty reported the loss of two more warboats: the submarine Oxley, by "accidental explosion," with 53 dead (out of 54); Northern Rover, a former trawler, "overdue . . . missing . . . lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Lord's Admissions | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...tall young man, dressed in a general's uniform, accompanied by an aide de camp and an elderly statesman, hopped into his car at Brussels after dinner one evening last week and sped through northern Belgium into The Netherlands. Shortly before 11 o'clock the car raced up the Noordiende, one of The Hague's main streets, and stopped abruptly before a small but stately white Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...will be spurred and expanded. Canada will build bodies into which will go U. S. or British engines. Head of Canadian Associated Aircraft Ltd., a company formed to parcel out contracts among its six affiliates, is Paul Fleetford Sise, no airman but chosen on his business record (president, Northern Electric Co. of Canada) as just the right sort of wealthy, urbane, widely acquainted executive to do a Dominion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...column is not merely a tower of simple wisdom and reproof for lustful maidens, conscience-stricken wives: it is also a civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...with farming; as men of the soil their recreation has been limited to the simple, individualized exercise of track and field. The stoic, hardy peasants are well-adapted to this type of sport; many of them work all day and can train for running only at night. The long northern winters cause would-be runners to take up long-distance skiing for conditioning, a type of training which has produced many a tireless distance runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finn Stand Against Russia Is Typical Of Traditional Attitude Toward Sports | 11/7/1939 | See Source »

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