Word: northern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strip of darkness fled across one side of the earth as the moon passed in front of the sun. Like a crow's shadow, at dawn the eclipse trailed over Athens, leaped the Golden Horn, spanned the Black Sea, darkened Omsk, Tomsk, Kansk, crossed the Khingan Mountains into Northern Manchukuo, the Japan Sea into the Island of Hokkaido, then passed 2,800 mi. out into the Pacific where it spent itself at sundown...
...good Southern Methodist was the late Author Corra May Harris, of Rydal in the mountains of northern Georgia. Her most famed work, A Circuit Rider's Wife, based upon her early life with her husband, Rev. Lundy Howard Harris, was published serially in the Saturday Evening Post in 1910. An optimistic believer in oldtime simple virtues, Mrs. Harris in 1930 became "Professor of Evil" at Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.), whose President Hamilton Holt had published much of her early work when he edited the Independent. Author Harris died last year (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935), left the bulk...
...Milwaukee; Burlington; Chicago & North Western; Rock Island; Great Northern; Illinois Central; Soo Line. Chicago Great Western has since dropped...
Starting without money in a two-room shack, the government of the new Republic ran deeper & deeper into debt, while the slaveholding South worked for its annexation to the U. S. and the industrial North stood firm against it. Bushels of almost worthless Texas scrip held by Northern speculators had much to do with the change of sentiment which brought the new State into the Union in 1845. Sixteen years later Sam Houston, no longer a hero, lost his Governorship because he opposed Secession. Texas gave its share of men & supplies to the Confederate cause but, though the last battle...
...Post and Philadelphia Record, and the huge, tabloid New York Daily News, to the fact that Guild and labor support had kept alive a bitter strike of 25 Milwaukee Guildmen against the Hearstian News since last February. Outside the four founding cities, strong Guilds had grown in Boston, Philadelphia, northern California, St. Louis and Washington, D. C. Chicago was weak, but New York, with 1,551 active Guildmen, was the national tower of moral and financial strength...