Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Northern and southern New England factions of the newly-born National Student Association are expected to clash today and tomorrow over the issue of N.S.A.'s ole in partisan politics...
Hays '49, Chairman, New England Region, Students for Democratic Action; Ernest M. Howell '47, Co-chairman, National Intercollegiate Christian Council; Lawrence M. Jaffa 2D, Chairman, Northern New England Region, National Student Association; Andrew E. Rice 2G, Massachusetts Chairman, American Veterans Committee: Don S. Willner '47, National Chairman, Students for Democratic Action; Pat Kirkland, Vice-chairman, New England Catholic Student Peace Association; Neil Scaulon, Vice-President, National Federation of Catholic College Students; Mary McNulty, Co-chairman, New England Student Christian Movement; and Mary L. Seasholls, Chairman, United Student Christion Council
According to Harlan T. Stetson, director of M.I.T.'s celestial research station at Needham, this is the worst year for sunspots in 200. And sunspots do not only cause static, radio blackouts, and northern lights, but also extremities of weather behavior...
Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...
...last car of the stalled train was a steel sleeper, and the steel held. Ahead was a wood-&-steel day coach; the steel sleeper drove into it like a battering ram. Forty-eight hours later, after relief trains and planes had got to Wykes, near Parent in northern Quebec's lonely logging country, the deaths stood at nine. More than 50 had been injured. It was Quebec's worst railroad wreck, in number of fatalities, in twelve years...