Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, government atomic experts were hoping it would all turn out to be as good as it looked. The new find is only two miles from a highway, and is right on the line of traffic down the Great Lakes, much handier than distant Eldorado, in the Northwest Territories, Canada's only proved source of uranium. Toronto investors were willing to bet big money that the new strike was the real thing. By week's end, shares in Campbell's syndicate, which he peddled last spring for $25 apiece, were bringing bids of $1,000. Prospector...
...only power still holding the Nationalist government together, had no illusions about his chances in a Communist-dominated coalition. Last week he conferred in Nanking with his top generals: Fu Tso-yi, whom he gave a completely free hand in the north, Chang Chih-chung, from the far northwest, and Pai Chung-hsi, from Hankow in Central China...
Spare Time. Charles Walter Stansby Williams called himself a cockney, though he was born (1886) in northwest London, well out of earshot of Bow bells. His father was a poorly paid translator for an importing house, who spent his free hours reading, meditating on God, and turning out an occasional poem or play...
Ward 7, Precincts 4 and 5: Out in the distant northwest, this one takes in the Radcliffe dormitories and most of the off-campus houses. It is bounded by Shepard st. to the South, however, putting some of the Radcliffe dorms in Ward 8, precinct 5 (see below). Voting here will take place at Peabody School, Linnaean and Avon...
...train rolled through the rich Pacific Northwest, Tom Dewey was obviously gaining in confidence, and apparently he was translating that confidence into a new maturity. He seemed less like a candidate bidding for votes and more like a statesman speaking not only for his party but for his country...