Word: northwesterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evanston, Illinois, assistant in Electrical Engineering; John H. Hollister, Atlanta, Georgia, assistant in Chemistry; Glen W. Kilmer, State College, Pennsylvania, Penn State '36, assistant in Chemistry; Louis Long Jr., Cambridge, assistant in Chemistry; Richard W. Nebel, Parlin, New Jersey, Princeton '36, assistant in Chemistry; and Oliver H. Lowry, Chicago, Northwestern '32, instructor and tutor in Biochemical Sciences...
Over the jagged rim of the Atlas Mountains, which cut diagonally across the bulge of northwestern Africa, live the Tuaregs, fiercest of North African tribesmen. Known as the Blue Men, the Tuaregs swath their bodies in robes of cheap indigo-dyed cotton that dyes their skins a permanent blue color...
...North Canaan lime company, faced by ruinous competition from ten other lime companies in northwestern Connecticut and southwestern Massachucetts, also came into Roraback's hands...
...used as an illustration the alleged murder of a friendly Indian family by Captain Michael Cresap. That charge has been answered time and again. First by John Jacobs in 1820, second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together on the Ohio River many miles away from the scene of the tragedy on the day it occurred...
...visitors. He was a star footballer at Kansas State College, went to Dartmouth to play more football, study astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes. As an infantry officer he saw action in the Spanish and World Wars. Last week the trustees of the Rosenwald Museum asked the Planetarium...