Word: northwestern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cheery as a birthday sing-o-gram, that message boomed through the loudspeaker of a British ship, one of several anchored brazenly last week off the German-held Lofoten Islands on Norway's jagged northwestern coast. Bearers of the greeting were Britain's tough Commandos, bent on destruction of radio equipment guiding German shipping along the Axis sea route to the Arctic fighting front in Russia...
...quarter, graduate in a year and a half. Last week Chicago's meteorology course, training weather experts for the Army and Navy air arms, went from a five-to six-day week. Chicago has also arranged to let draftees finish college by taking correspondence courses at half rates. > Northwestern has another speed-up plan (to be tried first in its School of Speech): it will admit exceptionally able high-school juniors, let them combine the high-school senior and college freshman years. By studying summers such students can get through high school and college in six years...
...Most drastic (written by Northwestern Mutual Life and others) will not insure any male classified as 1-A by his draft board, will not consider writing a policy unless and until actual deferment has been granted...
When Harvard wins a game I am very happy. But it is a purely superficial type of happiness, compared with the ecstasy I feel when the Wolverines trounce a highly favored Northwestern eleven, or send the Illinois back to Champaign with nothing to talk about but their band...
Salmon are as much a part of Northwestern life and legend as the Indians. Like the clear, fast, greenwater creeks and rivers that lace the hills together, they belong to the country. Many a Western boy got his first sense of the strangeness and mystery of his own land when he stood on the banks of some stream and watched the great fish swarming inland from...