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Word: northerner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entirely different direction. The south-seeking ends of the magnetic particles were pointing downward as the needles of "dip circle" compasses do in the southern hemisphere. The ancient Maryland rocks acted magnetically as if they had been formed nearer to the southern magnetic pole (in Antarctica) than to the northern one (in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Electric Earth | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...first Experiment group to Israel will fly to Jerusalem to live with families there for two weeks. The following two weeks will be spent working on a cooperative farm; then the group returns to its "families" for another week and concludes the second month with a tour of northern and southern Israel. Exceptionally good physical condition is a pre-requisite of this trip, and preference for membership will be given to non-Jewish students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Israel Picked For Tour By Study Group | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...whose power in the labor world was once undisputed, clearly resented being crowded by what seemed to them young upstarts, with pushing ways, loud ties and big, expensive cigars. They were annoyed especially when Mike Quill, truculent boss of the U.S. Transport Workers and a professional Irishman, blurted that Northern Ireland was "a slave state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Free Labor | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...depression threat in America worries northern Europe more than the possibility of a Russian invasion, Senator Ralph E. Flanders declared last night in Littauer auditorium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Economy Scares World, Flanders Says | 12/8/1949 | See Source »

...federation of labor (CGT) gleefully announced that it was going to strike, too, trumpeted that France would never forget its black Friday. As it turned out, strikebound Friday was at worst only a dull grey. According to the Ministry of Interior, the strike" was 100% effective in the northern and eastern coal mines, in the ports, in some metal industries. But a majority of France's union members openly defied the strike call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Does It Pay to Advertise? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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