nor'-west

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Noun	1.	nor'-west - the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees northwestward, NW, northwest compass point, point - any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass"
Adv.	1.	nor'-west - to, toward, or in the northwest northwest, north-west

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The prairie farm press, including The Nor'-West Farmer (est.

Third, Edwin Osgood Groves, another country-lifer, announced "The Country Boy's Creed" in The Nor'-West Farmer in 1914: "I believe that the country which God made is more beautiful than the city which man made; that life out-of-doors and in touch with the earth is the natural life of man.

In this pastoral wonderland, the agricultural fair had a particular countenance and purpose, as a parable from The Nor'-West Farmer confirmed.