Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the squad deep in reserves, Coach Jack Barnaby yesterday sent the following men northward to take on the Indians: Rockwood Foster, Bill Wightman, Parker Francis, Captain Bob Sturgis, Charles Stewart, Don O'Callaghan, max Tufts, and Milt Heath...
...many as three more or less distant possessions. Nearest of these is Oak Ridge Observatory, established in 1932 in the midst of 40 acres of heavily wooded land in Harvard township, 25 miles Northeast of Cambridge. Oak Ridge's facilities, many of which were moved from Cambridge when the northward spread of the city rendered the old location not sufficiently free from dust and artificial lights to permit optimum conditions for astronomical observation, includes a 16 inch doublet, a 24 inch refleflctor, and a 61 inch telescope with spectroscopic equipment. Oak Ridge is now the Department's headquarters for systematic...
Word came in a late flash from New Haven last night that Silliman College will send a gridiron contingent northward today to face the Mastodons of Eliot Hose, thereby increasing the intramural slate this afternoon to seven games...
...Chile. Looking northward, the first of the five Andean republics is Chile, where spring had come hesitantly, like a girl from the sea, wet and cool. It was bad news for vineyardists that the wine crop was badly damaged by late frosts. It was bad news for Chilenos in general. Next year the common grades of wine might have to go above 18? a gallon (the same price as gasoline) and that would go hard with a nation which bows not even to the U.S. in its liking for alcohol...
Sometimes a polar air mass protects the eastern states in a more dramatic way. Last week a West Indian hurricane roared northward toward New England. Storm warnings flew; fishing boats scurried to cover. Two hundred Navy airplanes fled to Albany from Quonset Point, R.I. Police on Cape Cod were alerted for onrushing trouble. But a rescuing polar air mass hovered over the threatened area, pushed the dreaded hurricane harmlessly away from the land...