Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this Northern Straits tribe, Eskimos do not live in the interior of Labrador, the purported home of the wild Fish Fang tribe; but stick close along the shore. In the fourth place the glorious name of Fish Fang may belong to some far northern or extinct tribe, but its application today...
...coming turn to democracy? A turn in the Presidency is usually foreshadowed by a party victory in its previous Congressional election. Will the country return to a state of normal Republican, majorities, or have conditions so changed in the last ten years that the Republican hold in the Northern states will not insure it the control of Congress...
With the approach of summer we lose, to be sure, some of the most brilliant constellations of the northern skies: notably, Orion, Taurus, Gemini, and Ganis Major; but, if the skies of summer are less brilliant they are not less interesting. High up in the north is the "dipper", the catch figure of Ursa Major chased by the huntsman Bootes. The brightest star of Bootes is Arcturus, found by following the bend of the handle of the "dipper" to the eastward. Arcturus is one of the few stars whose diameter has actually been measured, although, like all "fixed stars...
...Railroad twenty miles north of Baltimore on a peninsula eight miles long and about two miles wide. This territory known as Gunpowder Neck, jutts out into Chespeake Bay between the mouths of the Gunpowder and Bush Rivers. The railroad cuts across the entire width of the neck forming the northern boundary of the Arsenal. On all other sides the Arsenal is surrounded by water, affording an excellent opportunity for boating, swimming, and fishing. In addition there are tennis courts, a baseball diamond, and a half mile cinder track, which will be used by the students...
...flint and steel which were used by our ancestors until recently for fire-making are but a degree removed from the flint and from pyrites, their immediate predecessor, which were common among the northern peoples of America, and also in Europe in ancient times. The Malay tribes, however, long ago perfected several methods of fire-making, the most interesting of which is the fire syringe, which ignites tinder by simple air compression...