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Word: northwest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just when he was supposed to be looking intently in another direction, President Coolidge turned around last week and said he would spend the summer in the northwest corner of Wisconsin, in a log cabin, in a cedar forest, on an island in a trout stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Brule | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

Describing the recent flight of G. H. Wilkins over the North Pole from Alaska to Spitzbergen as "the Elizabethan dream of a Northwest passage come true," Vilhjalmur Stefansson Arctic explorer and member of the University faculty from 1904 to 1906 explained to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday several reasons for the importance of Wilkins' achievement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUTURE AIR LINES OVER ARCTIC ARE PREDICTED | 5/2/1928 | See Source »

This evening at 8 o'clock Mr. Frank Branch Riley will give an illustrated lecture on the National Parks in the Old Fogg Art Museum. The title of the speech is "The Lure of the Great Northwest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANK BRANCH RILEY TO TALK ON NATIONAL PARKS | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

...Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Montana Power | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...control of the Washington Water Power Co., which operates in Washington and Idaho, and for a longer time has owned the Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. By adding to those companies Montana Power, American Power & Light has a well-knotted system tying the northwest communities snugly together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Montana Power | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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