Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strasbourg, French Communists heard Communist Deputy André Marty deplore the big sum the French Government planned to spend on the Sixth World Scout Jamboree (30,000 Boy Scouts are scheduled to encamp on the meadows at Moisson, northwest of Paris, in mid-August). The $956,000 allocated for the meeting, said Marty, could better be spent for recreation centers. "Existentialists" with reactionary backing, he added, were trying to demoralize French youth...
...remainder, all local talent, will be living at home. Accounts of the Long-fellow lineup indicated that the commuter would no longer be Radcliffe's forgotten woman, despite the depressed ratio of six and a half Harvardians to every quarry to the Northwest...
Little, red-haired Emily retired in 1934. On Denver's standard $50-a-month teacher's pension-all that Emily would accept -she settled down in a pine-slab mountain cabin at Pinecliffe, 35 miles northwest of town, with her invalid sister, Florence...
Bleats of a Goat. "Forever" might have been a longer time if it had not been for a scrawny, timid schoolboy then in the northwest India town of Porbandar on the Arabian Sea, 700 miles away. Mohandas Kamarchand Gandhi was eight years old at the time of the Great Durbar at Delhi. He was already sensitive about his British rulers. His schoolmates used to recite a bit of doggerel...
...Outside is only a few hours away from almost any Alaskan town. Pan American Airways flies daily schedules north from Seattle. Anchorage is only 17 hours from New York City by Northwest Airlines. When Northwest begins its Oriental service (July 15) over the Aleutians-Great Circle route, Tokyo, Shanghai and Manila will be almost as near. A new line is projected. Chinese National Aviation Corp., a Pan American affiliate, hopes to fly its planes into Alaska...