Word: northerners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vineyards of northern France grape-growers watched helplessly the progress of a mysterious blight which will cut the millions of bottles of champagne which should have filled the cellars of Rheims this autumn down to a few scant thousands...
...nineteenth century, the Hapsburgs, in burgs, in procession of northern Italy, were engaged in putting down the political aspirations of the rest of the peninsula. In 1903 Francis Joseph vetoed a papal election, exercising the prerogative which his predecessors, the Holy-Roman emperors had claimed a thousand years before...
...concluding lap of its journey the Committee last week traversed three hundred miles of desert in southern Oregon and northern Nevada, the largest single piece of unreserved public domain remaining. Every ten or fifteen miles the deserted hut of some overambitious homesteader was passed. Every 50 miles or so was a little shack where gasoline could be purchased. Herds of wild horses watched the party as it passed, galloping away in a billowing cloud of dust if the automobiles paused. Running with one of these herds was a lone mule. Here and there lay the dismembered bodies of colts slain...
...Davison's leadership. The Glee Club trip to Europe in 1921 was the culminating point of his growing fame when a national reputation was widened to an international one. Throughout Europe he and the Glee Club were acclaimed as they had been in America, its fame penetrating through northern Russia according to M. Serge Koussevitsky, now conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...last week saw plenty of fighting in Morocco. Along the northern concave side of the sausage which is Mediterranean Coast, the Spanish made a landing and bit out a little piece of enemy territory near Ajdir. The troops were embarked at Melilla to the east and cruised along the Riff coast for two days with convoying battleships, both French and Spanish, shelling enemy works. After two feints, one morning the battleship Paris steamed into Alhucemas Bay and began to shell the Riff positions at the main beach. For four hours the bombardment with 12½-in. guns continued. The Riffs...