Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oldoway is not older than the Piltdown. Java and Peking men, at least he is complete, whereas they are but scraps. If Oldoway is genuinely pleistocene, anthropologists are not much surprised at the persistence of similar people in northeast Africa today. The Bushmen of Australia, the Ainus of Japan and the Dravidians of India have survived from a stock almost as remote...
...course, continue to get eagles from any bank?see P-15-) Meanwhile, Bombay banks continued to send gold to London, boosted English bullion reserves over native protests. And, more important, the tireless quest for virgin gold kept on. The best spot heralded last week was in the cold northeast of Sweden where 40 rich claims await development near the Boliden mine, which last year produced twelve tons ($7,000,000) of gold. Said Count Ehrinsvard, Swedish Ambassador to Paris, "The importance of these mines is immense, a new source...
...where he could live in savagery, but television reporters hunted him out, Lenina returned to torture him and the flesh got him in the end. Early morning reporters found him dangling in his lighthouse. "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, northeast, east, southeast, south, south-southwest...
Marked in red on a map of Alaska in the Alaskan Airways office at Fairbanks is a 200-mi. square in the extreme northeast section of the Territory along the Canadian border and the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Somewhere in that wilderness plods a herd of 2,400 reindeer, all that remain of a herd of 3,500. With seven Lapp herders they are on their way from the Seward Peninsula to east of the Mackenzie River in northern Canada. They set out two years ago when Lomen Reindeer Corp. contracted to deliver the herd to the Canadian Government...
...compartment just abaft the control cabin, saw Sparks (radio operator) begin to pound brass . . . "NHC [the Naval base at Cristobal]-NHC-sighted ten men in lifeboat at 10:22 North 76:52 West-ORMSBEE." With that message and another to Miami on their way, Pilot Ormsbee turned northeast and kited for Barranquilla, hating to think of the eleven pairs of dejected eyes that focussed upon his vanishing ship...