Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street is the Union, dining hall to acons of Freshmen, as well as the offices of the Harvard Athletic Association, where tickets for football games and other tests of skill are obtained. English A students will have many occasions to visit Warren House to the rear of the Union. Northward on Quincy Street is the Fogg Art Museum...
Like a swarm of antennaed monsters, the combines of the itinerant harvesters had followed the ripening grain northward through Texas and Oklahoma. Now, from the eastern foothills of the Rockies along the hundreds of miles of plains to the Missouri River, they worked in ripening fields alongside the farmers who had planted it. Wheat was in the air; it was in the eyes and hair and the hearts and minds of almost everyone...
...West, the iceman's unattainable ideal, was back on stage after a year's layoff. In her new play, Ring Twice Tonight, she opened in Long Beach, Calif., then rumbled northward, hoped to last all the way to Broadway. Her role: an undercover agent for the FBI. Supporting cast: two maids and 15 men. Covering her added attractions: two negligees (one at a time)-one in orange and dove grey, the other just lacy orange, backed with white satin here & there, and here & there...
...hour later, reports came in. Tracked by radar and captured German optical instruments, the rocket had climbed 75 miles into the ionosphere. Three minutes after its start, it hurtled downward, hit the ground 39 miles to the northward at 2,400 miles an hour, and, reported a watching Army flyer, buried itself in sand with a gush of flame...
Travel-hungry Americans have always liked Canada's wide open spaces and the fact that the U.S. dollar was worth $1.10. Now there was another reason for their desire to trek northward: a heavy-handed price control had kept food, lodging and entertainment prices well below U.S. levels. They had also been lured on by splurges like the $750,000 spent this year by the Canadian Pacific Railroad to advertise its hotels, by tons of gaudy literature, by newspaper and magazine ads plugging everything from Quebec's salty seaweed-fed lamb to junkets to Alaska and Hudson...