Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been partially supported by arbitrary tithes, now gradually being liquidated. "God's acres" stem from such tithing. For eight years a systematized form of tithing, the Lord's Acre Plan, has flourished under the guidance of the Farmers' Federation of North Carolina. Its director is a Northern Presbyterian, Rev. Dumont Clarke, onetime Y. M. C. A. man in India, onetime religious director at Lawrenceville School...
India, at Karachi and Calcutta. Here the traveler will don his linen suit and silk shirt before taking off for humid Bangkok, Siam, the transfer point for Imperial Airways' shuttle service to Hong Kong. Sixth night he sleeps at Singapore, where Quantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Services) Empire Airways Ltd. takes over the rest of his journey. Seventh night is spent at Rambang, Dutch East Indies, eighth at Longreach, Australia. Ninth day the traveler, his all-British 13,000-mile flight completed, is landed in Brisbane, busy capital of Queensland. The long trip will cost...
Harry French was in wrecks on the Lawrence, Leavenworth & Galveston (known as the Lazy, Lousy and Greasy), on the Union Pacific, the Northern Pacific, the Tacoma Eastern, the Oregon Railroad & Navigation, missed wrecks by a hair on half-a-dozen other lines. In those days grades were so steep over the Cascade Mountains that when a dispatcher wired a telegraph operator in the mountains, asked if a runaway stock train had passed through, the reply became a classic: "Roar of wheels. Smell of manure. Yes." Harry French's biggest railroad wreck came when a bridge gave...
According to officials of a Northern mail-order house-which one the inspectors would not say-Bug Tussle had done them out of $6,000 worth of overalls and kitchen stoves. The citizens had done it, they said, simply by giving themselves as references for each other and nobody ever seemed to have paid for what he ordered. One of them even got his cat an A credit rating. The inspectors are afraid they will have to make some more arrests, but they think it fortunate for their case that they will be able to take the erring citizens...
...torrent of talk began with the two months of "masterful turbulence" that accompanied the attempt to impeach Johnson. When the Democrats gained power after the towering scandals of the Grant administration, Elaine baited Southern Democrats so skillfully that he soon had them roaring Confederate defiance, effectively distracting Northern attention from the Whiskey Ring...