Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundations, dragging wreckage into the Sound on its backwash. (Cyclones and waterspouts [which are cyclones over water] are caused by air rushing to fill an area of low pressure, being diverted into an inward spiral motion by the spin of the earth. The spiral is always counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern. The "path" of a cyclone is determined by the larger air currents in which the spiral motion occurs, as an eddy is carried down a brook.) In England, townsfolk living north and west of London scrambled from their beds before dawn, panic-stricken by sounds...
Significance. The nice interbalance of the Northern Mediterranean powers and their incessant rivalries for possession of Southern Mediterranean lands renders the present treaty of paramount importance. France and Spain have just victoriously concluded a war which has given them control of Morocco (TIME, April 19) and when a partition of this territory is made into "colonies," "protectorates," "mandates" or "spheres of influence," Italy will assumedly claim a share of this exalted swag as the price of her acquiescence in the Franco-Spanish mutual apportionment. Thus, in respect to Morocco alone, the new treaty looms ominously for France. Dictator-Premier Primo...
...Railroads of the northwest have "turned the corner," Chairman Howard Elliott of the Northern Pacific, said last week. They carry crops, ores and lumber. For the nation there have been ten weeks this year when more than a million cars were loaded. In only one week, that of Jan. 2 were there less than 900,000. This reflects lively interchange of commodities. Gross railroad earnings, January through June, were...
...youngest of the three sons of the late famed publisher of the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer; to Mrs. Gladys Munn Amory, of Washington, D. C. Since serving as an aviator in the World War, he has traveled through Russia as foreign correspondent for the World; hunted antelope in Northern Rhodesia; idled at Palm Beach, Paris. She, in 1913, married Charles Minot Amory, Boston social arbiter, graduate of Grpton, Harvard; she divorced...
...daily stint, most of which has been criticism of art, music, books. The more literate magazines have welcomed his contributions in verse and prose. Last year he published Godhead, a powerful story of a "superman" whose original he discovered while covering a strike on the Gogebic iron range, northern Michigan. The contrasting humor and whimsy of his new novel is as astonishing as it is joyous...