Word: southeaster
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...limited fashion, Knox has already done her work well. She is one of the six colleges to which Harvard sends exchange professors, "the only college in Illinois having an active chapter of Phi Beta Kappa." In traditions and famed alumni she rivals her huge contemporary to the southeast, the University of Illinois. The college was founded with the town in 1837 by a band of non-sectarian New York State zealots with an eye to spreading culture through the western territory recently opened up as land grants to veterans of the Revolutionary...
Meanwhile in Poona, southeast of Bombay, 100 volunteers planned to emulate Saint Gandhi, make a 100-mile march-to-the-sea. In Calcutta, Mayor J. M. Sen Gupta, garlanded, his forehead daubed with vermilion in, honor of a Hindu festival, embarked for Rangoon to answer British charges that he had encouraged Civil Disobedience...
Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...