Word: northern
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Although the colonists were supposed to be farmers hardened to the rigors of northern winters, it was soon clear that many of them had never even been on a farm, let alone sown anything but wild oats. The first months were a long nightmare; a wheat crop failed because of a poor choice of seed. Some settlers had to stay in tents during the long dark winter. Slowly, their number dwindled (537 left in the first four years) leaving the strong and the dogged, who bought up the abandoned land. Gradually the birthrate climbed, the bulldozers and the plows...
During July, the team took side trips to castles in the area, including a day of tennis and lunch with the Duke of Devonshire. Then came a Northern trip to Hill, Derby, Manchester, and Nottingham, with matches almost every...
...opposite end of the poll the third group of Southern students at Harvard represent the fair-haired children of the Arkansas Gazette and the Northern press in general. These are the "enlightened" Southerners with opinions born in the South and crystallized upon exposure to Harvard's benign influence...
Perhaps the greatest educational benefit of Southerners attending Harvard is bestowed on their Northern and Eastern classmates who learn that the Southerners' ideas and ideals, however divergent, are based on reasoning and sincere conviction and are not just the product of the Theodore Bilbos...
...incubated in millions of prairie potholes and marshes that yield 65% of the continent's waterfowl, began the long flight south. From Canada they will scud at 40 to 50 m.p.h. over the four great fly ways (see map) to winter havens scattered from the southern U.S. to northern Peru. Along the way, millions will fall before the guns...