Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Lyons (1859-65), who took the hot blast of Northern resentment at British help to the South. ¶ James Bryce (1907-13), who was well known in the U.S., before he became Ambassador, for his great book The American Commonwealth. Bryce was widely respected; when he attended the Old Presbyterian Church in Washington he was always escorted to Abraham Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading...
...read like a slightly smudged carbon copy of last year's. The big items were the painful old perennials, which various committees and commissions were tossing back to the Assembly: Indonesia, on which the Dutch are wearily trying to reach agreement with the Republicans; Korea, whose well-armed Northern Communist regime has refused even to admit U.N. commissioners into its territory; Israel, which is protesting violently against a U.N. plan to internationalize Jerusalem...
...Oceania, for instance, the natives used two kinds of fishhook: a barbed, composite gadget made of shell and stone lashed together and a nearly circular barbless hook carved out of bone or shell in one piece. Almost identical hooks of both types have been found together on the northern coast of Chile. Dr. Ekholm believes that patterns so characteristic and so similar could not have been developed independently...
After 15 months, what started as a community project had grown into one of the most comprehensive exhibits of religious art ever gathered together in northern Europe. By last week, 300 art historians and archeologists had swarmed into town to buzz among the assembled treasures, argue learnedly over dates and artists. The Vatican sent photographers to take pictures. The Belgian periodical Sa-uoir et Beaute brought out a special number singing the glories of ancient Tournai...
Frederic D. Houghteling '50 was elected national NSA secretary and will serve from January, 1950 through January, 1951. He will also act as regional (Northern New England) treasurer. Robert J. Stern '50, the Harvard relegation chairman, was elected regional NSA leader, thus necessitating an election later in the term to name a new College chairman...