Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mile course on the Severn runs from northwest to southeast, and is about four miles up from the mouth of the river. High land on both sides makes it a very smooth course in ordinary winds...
...conflagration which has occurred in Greater Boston for many years began yesterday morning about 11 o'clock at the westerly end of the city of Chelsea in a dump near the plant of the Boston Blacking Company on Summer street. Late last night the fire, fanned by the high northwest wind, had not only burned over an area of about half a mile wide and over two miles long in Chelsea, but had also spread rapidly in East Boston. One of the worst features of the fire was the explosion of the oil tanks of the Tidewater Oil Company...
...Professor Jaggar. The results of their investigations are to appear later in the Technology Quarterly. The party visited all the islands of the Aleutian chain from Unimak Pass to Atka. It was found that the island of Bogoslof was one of the wonders of volcanology. This island volcano is northwest of the peninsula of Alaska. It first appeared as the result of an eruption in 1796, and it has been more or less active ever since...
...meeting of the men from Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Washington, and Wyoming last night a club was formed, called the Pacific Northwest Club, for the purpose of bringing men from these states together socially. The following officers were elected: president, H. J. Spinden 1G.; vice-president, G. G. Glass '08; secretary-treasurer, S. A. Griffiths...
...tall oak clock, a gift of the class of 1878, which has heretofore stood near the southwest corner of the Living Room of the Union, was placed yesterday on a pedestal, which has been built during the Christmas recess in the northwest corner of the Living Room. This change was made in order to put the gift in a better light, and give it a more advantageous situation...