Word: northwester
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battle of Einstein is raging on all fronts more fiercely than ever. Scarcely had Dr. William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, announced that photographs taken by the Crocker expedition at Wallal, on the northwest coast of Australia, during the solar eclipse of last September, confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity as to the bending of star rays out of their normal paths by the sun's influence, when Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, U. S. N., astronomer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, issued a statement regretting Dr. Campbell's action...
Colonel Ham, a white-haired enthusiast, warmed to reminiscences of Mark Twain, broken in his latter days, but still blessed with a sense of humor, and of Dickens' son, Charles, for a time in the Canadian Northwest mounted police. " I never mentioned his father to him," Colonel Ham told us, "and he was so surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good?...
...yesterday's practice the runners worked out under Coach Martin's direction on the cinder track in the northwest corner of Soldiers Field. Coach Farrell supervised the work of the hammer throwers and jumpers, who practiced in the field behind the southern end of the Stadium, as well as that of the shot-putters, who practiced inside. The discus men practiced under Coach Mikkola in the ring near the west end of the tennis courts. Regular practice will be held this afternoon, and new candidates may report at the hour designated for the events in which they wish to participate...
...relief. The author loses no time in political theorizing or in speculating as to the future of Russia, but steps quickly into the boundless forests of the Yenisei. From there on, all that we hear of the war or the Revolution comes as an echo from the Northwest, or from the months of inn-keepers, shepherds, Lamas, or officers of "Red" of "White" detachments. Once, it is true the Yenisei River, in its springy floods brings a sight that neither author nor readers will ever forget: "Watching this glorious withdrawal of the ice. I was filled with terror and revolt...
...dreams of Columbus and the Cabots, of Gilbert and Hudson, thwarted by the inconvenient location of America, are likely to be fulfilled by the modern ingenuity which finds land no obstacle to rapid trasportation. The "Northwest Passage", which lured countless mariners to peril and hardship, may now be opened by the persistent navigators...