Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...East Williston, L. I., schoolboys played golf. From Hotchkiss School, famed institution on a hill over a lake in the northwest corner of Connecticut, came two youths, classmates, both 16, who met in the finals. Then Sidney W. Noyes Jr. beat Robert A. Moffett...
Airplane manufacturers swelled with pride and anticipation, each confident his make would perform most dependably on the long flight to Texas, to California, Oregon and back through the Northwest. Manufacturer Edsel B. Ford, donor of the four-foot, silver and green marble trophy, acted as starter, watched his own new models take the air for the Texas Co. and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. Manufacturer Eddie Stinson, not content to enter his Stinson-Detroiter with another pilot, took the controls himself, sought to repeat his 1927 victory. These counted: skill, reliability, speed, endurance, plane performance. This was the serious...
...PLAINS OF ABRAHAM-James Oliver Curwood-Doubleday Doran ($2). All that Robert W. Chambers has left unread or unsaid of colorful records concerning the Canadian Northwest, the late James Oliver Curwood has supplemented. Noble youth Jeems, son of a true French Canadian woodsman, mourns his tomahawked mother. He rescues the beautiful maiden Toinette. With their faithful dog, they escape the Mohawks only to be captured by bloody Senecas. Toinette's beauty subtly prevails upon the chief to spare their lives, and for months they live according to Redman's ritual in Chenufsio, Hidden Town. A priest happens along...
...morning a brisk northwest wind combined with the ebb tide to make very fast conditions. Paddling downstream for a mile and a half the first two eights changed shells, rowed on a few strokes and then returned to the boathouse...
About 29 miles away (northwest) is Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will...