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Definition of Northwests
1. northwest [n] - See also: northwest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Northwests
Literary usage of Northwests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1919)
"... northwests™, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Hamline, Kansas, Denver, California, Oxford
and Cambridge Universities: and Bowdoin, Bates, Dartmouth, Middlebury, ..."
2. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner (1920)
"In the meantime the Old northwests passed through an economic and social
transformation. The whole West furnished an area over which successive waves of ..."
3. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1870)
"Railroads—those marvellous creations of less than half a. century—cover our
country with a network and lead from the northwests to many cities on the ..."
4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1873)
"... and the patois of northwests France still preserves the hard sound of c in
chemin, and so links it to the ..."
5. Airline Hubs: Fair Competition Or Predatory Pricing, Hearing Before the edited by Mike Dewine (1999)
"In fact, the vast majority of northwests originating traffic at both hubs use
Northwest's "Every Day Deals" fares, or even lower fares. ..."