Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bingham that the pitched was unaware that he was violating Ivy eligibility rules when he performed for the Keene, N. H. nine. At that time, Connolly was enrolled at Holy Cross, which, along with 21 other New England schools, permits its athletes to play in the Northern League, a semi-professional organization...
...industries in Manchuria, has obstructed economic and political unification in Korea, and has not carried out its commitments for the return of Dairen to Chinese administration as a free port. . . . In the Middle East, Persia has been for some years in turmoil, first through Soviet occupation of its "northern territories, and then through Soviet-sponsored local attempts to separate those areas from Persia...
...Greece . . . the incalculably difficult task of rebuilding its plant, its production, its people's health and morale, and its governmental services, has been threatened with total defeat by civil disturbances, aided, equipped, and protected by Greece's northern, Communist-controlled neighbors. . . . We can note without surprise the cynical and barefaced coup d'état in Hungary...
...Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...
Omar Nelson Bradley, Administrator of Veterans Affairs and former Commanding General, Second Corps, (Northern Tunisia and Sicily), Commanding General, First U. S. Army (Normandy) and Commanding General, Twelfth Army Group (France, Belgium, Laxembourg, Germany). Doctor of Laws. Citation: "A master of the art of war who now serves those whom he once led; a courageous administrator, the nation is doubly in his debt...