Word: north
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Incomes by states showed New York, No. 1 (net: $5,398,451,005; tax paid: $305,210,059). North Dakota, No. 48 (net: $33,252,341; tax paid...
...Executed. Bacha Sakao, "The Water Boy of the North," Afghan chieftain, usurper of King Amanullah's throne; at Shepur Cantonment, Afghanistan; by order of Nadir ("George Washington") Khan, his vanquisher, recently chosen king (see P.31...
...South: Duke v. North Carolina State at Durham; Florida v. Clemson at Gainesville ; Georgia v. Alabama Poly at Athens; Georgia Tech v. Alabama at Atlanta; Kentucky v. V. M. I. at Lexington; Tennessee v. Vanderbilt at Knoxville; Tulane v. Sewanee at New Orleans; V. P. I. v. Maryland at Norfolk; Washington & Lee v. Virginia at Lexington...
Mostly in measured language he uproots what seem to him some vulgar errors and takes his final stand with such modern mystics as Astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddington and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead: "The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our life in it any less mysterious...
...breach between father and son gradually widens until John finally leaves his ancestral home to go north and work in Detroit as a bank clerk is merely the vehicle for the steady development of an atmosphere, which is obviously the author's chief excuse for writing the book. He accomplishes his end well, however, for the reader is left a real understanding of a class of people in the south which is often written about but seldom presented in such a sympathic and clear form...