Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
Prospects for good skiing in Northern New England appeared good last night with the Weather Bureau reporting that snow is expected to fall throughout New Hampshire and Vermont today and tonight. A considerable fall is expected. The temperature will rise today but will remain below freezing. But for those who expect to ski around Boston there is no hope, for the report is: rain and warmer...
...leggers on Georgia's swampy southern coast, to moonshiners in Georgia's remote northern hills, and to thousands of dry and pious Georgia fundamentalists last week came discouraging news from Atlanta. A measure to repeal Georgia's 23-year-old State prohibition law, which has been openly violated in urban localities since Repeal but has stubbornly withstood two referendums initiated by Wets, passed the State Legislature's lower house after a stormy session by 105 votes to 85, squeaked through the Senate 27 votes to 22. Henceforth, Georgia's counties may permit package sales (limited...
...definitely what Vanderbilt and Southern education need: money. He proposed that Vanderbilt and Peabody, which have a close working partnership, enlarge their graduate department to give doctors' degrees in at least 15 fields. And he bluntly informed the South that it should stop depending on the gifts of Northern capitalists, should pay its own educational...
Besides the dog Jolly, the four on the floe were Leader Ivan Papanin, Radio Operator Ernest Krenkel, two other scientists. In the Arctic, where every Russian is a king, the king of kings is hardy, hairy Professor Otto Yulevich Schmidt, chairman of the Great Northern Sea Route Administration. Four years ago, when his ship, the Chelyuskin, had been squeezed, broken and sunk by the knitting ice pack, he spectacularly transferred 71 persons from the ship to an ice floe, whence they were spectacularly rescued by airplane. Last week, as Papanin's floe drifted toward Jan Mayen Island, jungle-bearded...