Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bartlett, who has recently returned from his eleventh voyage to the Arctic, is recognized as the Dean of Northern explorers. He was captain of Peary's ship which failed to reach the Pole in 1905, and again four years later was Captain when Peary was successful...
...spoken endearingly about Senator Norris, weapons: three speeches a day, a lifetime of struggles that has conferred on rugged farm-trained body the mantle of honest Senator Norris college days were days of postponment. Born in Ohio, he worked on farms during summer. Student at Baldwin University in Ohio Northern Indiana Normal School, he taught science during intervening years in order to continue school. In 1883 he received a law degree from Valparaiso University, but had to teach another year to pass law library. He was one of the senators to vote against America's entry in the war. Republican...
...cause behind the mysterious blunder at Balaklava, Screenwriters Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh have arbitrarily chosen for their stage the tried & true terrain of Northern India. Here, in 1850, Captain Geoffrey Vickers saves the life of Surat Khan in a leopard hunt the day before the Khan learns that the British Government has discontinued his fat subsidy. Months later, Geoffrey reaps the reward of his good turn. When the Khan's tribesmen have surrounded the military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive...
...John Quincy Adams' seat in Congress as an anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of slavery to the Northern territories. In 1852 Mann was defeated as the Free-Soil candidate for governor of Massachusetts. Same year he returned to education by accepting the presidency of New Antioch College...
...spite of the difference between them in time, and often in externals, Professor Burkhard holds that Rembrandt is the Northern painter who best can be compared with Gruenewald. Both, the author feels, remained true to their inheritance; and so in them "Northern painting reaches its climax and culmination...