Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...developing the last two and major points of his thesis Counselor Cahill is factually illuminating where most analysts would prove vague. He observes that the capture by Imperial Germany of so many industrial towns in Northern France forced the development of an entire new industrial area around such southern, central and western cities as Marseilles, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Grenoble, Limoges, Tours, Caen, Rouen and even Paris. It is these new and War-born producer areas which Mr. Cahill hails as of paramount significance in the French industrial boom of today...
...protesting against the sluggish formalism of the English churches, declared that every man must experience a personal revelation of God, an "Inward Light," which availed more than mere parroting of Scripture. After the organization of the first Quaker community in Lancashire, the movement spread rapidly through northern England and Wales...
Built for Northern Pacific Railroad, built by American Locomotive Co., the most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains...
Also leased for 999 years to the Pennsy R. R. is the tiny Elmira & Williamsport R. R. Pennsy took the line, in 1914, from the owning Northern Central R. R. Co. Together with 73.49 miles of single track, 0.34 miles of double track, a 999-year lease dating from 1863, the Pennsy acquired one of the freak obligations of railroad finance. For on May 1, 1863, the Elmira & Williamsport R. R. issued $569,500 coupon bonds, in denominations of $500, not callable before date of maturity. That date was fixed at Oct. 1, 2862, just seven months less than...
...solidified in little communistic groups. Perhaps they were not naturally belligerent (not one of Mucha's paintings commemorates a deed of battle), but onslaughts of domineering Goths, the scorbutic spread of Huns under black-hearted Attila, compelled warfare. The Slavs multiplied, mi grated. Westward they journeyed to Poland, Northern Germany. Eastward they thronged Russia, pierced in slim wedges to the Pacific. Southward they trekked to Hungary, Albania, Greece. By the sth century A.D. they had ceased to be a nation, were even losing race consciousness. Gradually the widespread Slavic peoples adopted Christianity. The 15th century martyr, Bohemian John Huss...