Word: southeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most jade comes from upper Burma and southeastern Turkestan. In the western hemisphere it is found in its natural state only in Alaska. Of cut jade five very fine specimens have been found in Mexico. One is now in Berlin, another in Stuttgart, a third in the National Museum of Mexico. A fourth is at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. It is a light green jadeite axe-head, a foot long, with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years...
...Samuel James Hungerford ("Sam" to a few friends, "S. J." to most), 60, for nine years vice president in charge of construction, operation and maintenance. His railroad career covers 46 years. It began just one year after Canadian Pacific spanned Canada, when he became a machinist's apprentice on Southeastern Railroad, which was later absorbed by CPR. In 1901 he was sent west from New Brunswick to be locomotive foreman for CPR at Cranbrook in southeastern British Columbia. Only two years later he was in muddy Calgary as master mechanic of the western division. In 1904 he was moved east...
From a dinky town in southeastern Kansas, Girard by name, a rude little newspaper used to yip and snap at President McKinley 35 years ago. As each successive Administration took office, it too was baited by the Kansas weekly. So was Capitalism. In the course of 20 years the paper-called The Appeal to Reason- piled up subscribers by the million. Girard had to be given a first-class postoffice. For all its viciousness, all its revolutionary effort, The Appeal to Reason left no record of accomplishment. But an incident of its career was to prove more important than...
...preparation for observation of the total solar eclipse which is scheduled to take place on August 31, the Harvard Observatory will establish a camp in southeastern Maine, between Fryeburg and the ocean, in the early days of August...
...Professor V. S. Forbes of Cambridge University thinks that the moon is not dead & cold, that radioactive substances keep it warm. †This August's will be the last total solar eclipse visible from the U. S. until 1979. Observers in New England and southeastern Canada will see totality for 1.5 min. Maximum possible duration of a total solar eclipse is 7.5 min. During a total eclipse the moon's shadow slides across the earth at from 1,060 to 5,000 m. p. h., depending upon its distance from the Equator and the sun's position...