Word: northeastern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual the storm was quickly over. Spinning out of the Atlantic, it swiped at the Virgin Islands, killing 15 persons and leaving St. Thomas littered with wreckage. Then its full force struck Puerto Rico at the northeastern tip, moved across the northern part of the island and was gone to blow itself out against the mountains of Haiti. San Juan, the populous capital, was sharply ripped by the storm's 120-m. p. h. vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley...
...strong, fast soccer team from Northeastern University overwhelmed a somewhat ragged Harvard Junior Varsity aggregation in last Saturday's game. Seven goals were pushed over by Ralston and Brown of Northeastern, while the Harvard kickers were unable to make a single tally. Harvard's play was, on the whole, below par, and the superiority of the Northeasterners was patent...
...path of totality moves at nearly 34 mi. per min. from northwest to southeast? from the Arctic Ocean, past the North Magnetic Pole (near where Professor Arthur Holly Compton hopes to be), across Hudson Bay, James Bay, Province of Quebec, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and southern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The eclipse ends in the middle of the Atlantic...
...More than flesh can bear," is the reported discovery by Dr. Donald S. Wees of "white Indians with blond hair who live like animals in the Grand Desert of Northeastern Paraguay," according to a statement given out yesterday at the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Repudiating Woes, who claimed to be "a Harvard explorer," the statement characterized him as "an obviously inexperienced amateur" and the publicity he gave out as "a revival of the White Indian hoax...
...sprints the Casey brothers, and McManus of Boston College, Bell of M.I.T., and Crickard, Brown, and Niles of Harvard are outstanding. MacKenzie of Northeastern, E. Carey, Holland, and Merritt of Boston College, and Cheek and Streeter of Harvard should score in the hurdle races. King, Parks, Smith, and Whelan are strong B.C. quarter-milers and Jewett of M.I.T. should also score. Harvard has Niles, Maguire, and Piper...