Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world where Greek and Hebrew are required subjects for students majoring in Religion - Bob Jones College in Cleveland. Alabama-born Bob Jones, a tall, husky Methodist who held his first service at 13 and was licensed to preach at 15, founded his institution a decade ago in northern Florida, planning it as a college for preserving the Bible and "the oldtime decencies" and still appealing to young people. He began with 132 students, confounded pedagogs who thought he was setting up a Fundamentalist camp-meeting by soon proving that his freshman class averaged eight points better than those in other...
...stealing a railroad in broad daylight." A Superior court jury found the operator of Joe's Auto Salvage Co. and a gang of men had pilfered 250 tons of New Haven rails worth $3,800 from an abandoned stretch of the Harrisville-Woonsocket R. R. in northern Rhode Island last summer...
Died. Milton Dwight Purdy, 70, one-time (1924-34) judge of the U. S. Court for China at Shanghai, onetime (1903-05) Assistant U. S. Attorney General; of heart disease; in Honolulu. Famed as Theodore Roosevelt's "chief trust buster," he won the historic Northern Securities Supreme Court decision (1904) which blocked merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads...
...newsprint paper annually consumed by the U. S. Press are the forests and mills of Canada and Maine. For years Georgia's Dr. Charles Holmes Herty has worked like a beaver to tell people that Southern slash or loblolly pine will make as good newsprint as the Northern firs and spruces. Dr. Herty's point was that in North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas are some 150,000,000 acres of second- growth timber, much of it the fast-growing slash pine,* more than enough for all the world if it could be milled...
...heights of the ionosphere shells change from hour to hour, from day to day. In June the two upper layers are widely separated in the Northern Hemisphere where the noon sun is highest, but in the Southern Hemisphere in that month they are merged, according to the findings of the Carnegie Institution s ionosphere stations in Peru and Australia. In December, the merging takes place in the Northern Hemisphere, the separation in the Southern...