Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sparks & Spaghetti. Archeologists had rounded up 75,000 specimens of Eskimo handiwork for the university, pieced together exhibits of prehistoric monsters. Campus scientists had collected important data for the Government on magnetism and the upper atmosphere, incidentally scotched an old sourdough's tale that the flashing northern lights set off sparks in their whiskers...
...resultant plates are forwarded to Cambridge to compliment photographic observations of the Northern Hemisphere. Thousands of these plates, stored up at Boyden station during the war, are now pouring into Cambridge...
...Ridge Observatory, 25 miles North-east of Cambridge in Harvard Township, was established as a more likely site for the systematic photography of the Northern skies. Today, armed with a Schmidt Camera--advantages; better image over larger field, astronomically speaking short (one half hour) exposures, revealing stars down to nineteenth magnitude--the staff at Oak Ridge is aiming at a complete analysis of the Milky...
...civilization. Whenever the white man's guns appeared, they fled deeper into the wilderness. Now their remnants breed in some unknown place in Canada's far north. This tactic of despair may be their final undoing: they are not Arctic birds, and are probably unsuited to far northern breeding grounds...
...Overlanders (Rank; Universal-International) is an Australian horse opera that has documentary force. In 1942, when Australia looked every day for a Jap invasion, the Australians decided to scorch their earth. The Northern Territory, some 520,000 square miles of land containing only 5,000 people and a million head of cattle, began to burn its houses, shoot its bullocks and head south...