Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There may be some satisfaction--though we doubt it--to know that the progress of cold waves is "due to thee gravity of the hydrostatic pressure due to the weight of the air in the rear of a volume of cold air advancing from the northwest, resulting from the diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis, giving a centrifugal force to the denser cold air greater than that of the neighboring warm air." This mechanical theory of the progress of the wave does not, however, explain exactly why the present (it is impossible at the moment to write "recent...
...University Library Committee has placed a large bronze tablet in commemoration of old Gore Hall on the front of the Widener Library near the northwest corner. At the bottom of the tablet is an embossed etching representing the old Gore Hall, which for many years held the University library...
...Council Room of the Widener Library, near they northwest corner of the building, has been and is still in the process of being converted into one of the most attractive rooms in the building. Amongst the furniture which adorns the room are five beautiful old mahogany book-cases which formerly stood in the bedroom of the late Harry Elkins Widener '07. Of these five cases, the one in the east corner of the room contains only those books which have been written by either active or retired members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who are at present alive...
...case in the northwest corner of the room contains, among other volumes, the Annals of the Astronomical Observatory in 77 volumes to date; the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which is in its 30th volume; and the Harvard Theological Review, now in its ninth volume...
...will take up a position on Hill about 200 yards to northwest of Pleasant and Carlton streets...