Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nether extremity of the globe. Then there was Riiser Larsen, his airplane pilot, and Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural History. He taught Americans to fly during the War in the French school at Tours, "did a cross section...
...embellished with birds, reptiles and animals, carved and painted in barbaric colors. It is to be shipped to Washington via the Panama Canal, as a tribute to the administration of President Coolidge, will be erected on the White House grounds. It is done in gratitude for recent payments to Northwestern Indians for forest lands...
...rare disease in which the bones of adults become so soft that multiple fractures occur. ** Now Northwestern University Medical School...
...most inspiring if it did take a long time. And the judges were at last able to decide that the best oration had been furnished by blond, curly-headed E. Wight Bakke, 22, of Onawa, Iowa, a junior at Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). They awarded the $2,000 first prize to Bakke for saying, among other things, that the U. S. Constitution is not "an old faded parchment in the Nation's capital, but a document written on the heart of every American. It bears not 39 signatures; for each of us it is signed by but one name...
...evening was cool, and in the morning the train was in Chicago. Engines were changed in the railroad yards, and the train sped on over the Chicago & Northwestern tracks to St. Paul. The route led through Wisconsin and Senator Lenroot, foe of LaFollette, sat in the observation car with the President, where his constituents might see them. It was a hot, sticky day. Towards evening, the train pulled into St. Paul. In all the 30 hours, the President made not a single rear-platform speech. But he ate three steaks...