Word: northern
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...stratosphere. The particles are so small that they fall very slowly until they reach the lower atmosphere. Then rain washes them quickly down to the surface. This process takes time; strontium 90 is now spread all over the earth, with somewhat less in the Southern than in the Northern Hemisphere...
Pianoplaying, sports-loving Archbishop Godfrey is the very model of a modern British divine. As a small boy in a working-class district, he pointed early for the priesthood. "I never considered anything else seriously," he says. He went then to Ushaw College, a Catholic seminary in northern England, afterwards to the English College in Rome. Ordained in 1916, he stayed in Rome long enough to take a double doctorate (in divinity and philosophy), then returned to Liverpool as curate of St. Michael's Church and began the slow climb up the hierarchical ladder...
...estimated 67,000 refugees a year, a change in the quota-basing system to 1950 census figures that will raise quota immigrations from 155,000 to 220,000 a year, and a change in quota procedures that would allow southern European and Mediterranean nationals to utilize unused quotas for northern Europeans...
...most ticklish law-enforcement fact in many a big Northern city is that the crime rate among Negroes is far higher than that of any other segment of the population*-and few elected officials want to antagonize vote-conscious Negroes by saying so. None knew this better than the unhappy city fathers of Kansas City, Mo., who, during the first three weeks of 1957, saw the number of armed robberies, burglaries and thefts run 40% beyond the 1956 rate, while four out of five robbery victims reported that the holdup men were Negroes. One day last fortnight, seven Negro businessmen...
With high excitement two U.S. museums this week are celebrating the acquisition of works by a painter who has always been a sound investment-the 17th century master of northern European painting, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn. In both cases the prices were even higher than the excitement...