Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...management and labor at the nearby American Viscose Corp. plant spoke up hotly against the school shutdown. Key reason for the bitterness: the Negro population in Front Royal is so small (8% of the total population) that the town could work out its problems as well as any average Northern community. Editor Edward T. Bromfield Jr. of the weekly Warren Sentinel complained bitterly because Front Royal was the hapless victim of "the unyielding position of Southside Virginia." At a Parent Teacher Association meeting, 500 townspeople heard School Superintendent Quincy Casque urge that some way be found to run the public...
Early Life. Born Feb. 11, 1906, son of a village doctor, amid the mountains and olive groves of northern Lebanon where, he says, "life is innocent and full...
These popular two ballads by themselves made Service rich. In successive books-Ballads of a Cheechako, Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, Lyrics of a Low Brow -he paid repeated respects to his own talents as a versifier and an avid public's eagerness to read manly far northern rhymes such as these...
Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
When it slides down the ways, Canada's icebreaker will go a long way toward opening up previously inaccessible seas, will lengthen the navigation season in relatively mild northern waters by weeks -or months. Capable of crunching through 8-ft. ice floes, cruising for a solid year without refueling, it will be able to chart unexplored Arctic shore lines and ocean depths, dump supplies and heavy equipment on islands previously supplied by air alone, serve as a base for weather observations beyond present navigation limits. Said Northern Affairs Minister Alvin Hamilton last week: "No single project could...