Word: northeast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't the nicest thing to tell the boys because the seas were running high. We threw everything into the sea that we didn't need. We got all the rest of our stuff together and looked down at the ocean." Then, somewhere about 400 miles northeast of Bermuda, the B-29 smacked into the rolling Atlantic swell with a rending jolt. There was another jolt as the big bomber's high-finned tail snapped...
When Pratt Segmiller isn't running a filling station in Marysvale (pop. 600), Utah, he hunts rocks. One day, while prospecting around the sage and cedar-covered mountains northeast of Marysvale, he found some strange yellow-colored rocks strewn over a surface of about 60 acres. Segmiller thought they might be valuable, so he staked a claim and called the Vanadium Corp. of America. When it inspected the claim; it got pretty excited and leased the land from Segmiller. The yellow rocks were autunite, a uranium-bearing ore, and the strike looked like the most promising yet made...
Tigner directed Eastern's pilot to enter a left-hand traffic pattern, go counterclockwise around the airport and land on runway No. 3 into the northeast wind. The transport snored steadily in on the prescribed course. Then the Bolivian pilot in the P-38 called in on another frequency and also asked the tower for landing instructions...
...city's nearest neighbors, a handful of primitive tribesmen, know almost nothing about it and avoid it in superstitious fear. They call it Peshawarun, and believe it was abandoned centuries ago when invaders cut the irrigation ditches bringing water from the mountains. The inhabitants fled 700 miles northeast, locals claim, to found the city of Peshawar...
...NORTHEAST Dartmouth 0 7 14 13-34 Yale 0 7 0 6-13 Rutgers 0 14 0 0-14 Princeton 7 13 14 0-34 Columbia 0 0 0 0-0 Cornell 7 13 0 34-54 Army 13 14 7 6-40 V.M.I. 0 0 7 7-14 Pittsburgh 6 7 7 2-22 Pennsylvania 0 14 7 0-21 Brown 14 7 0 7-28 Western Reserve 0 7 7 13-33 Syracuse 7 7 0 7-21 Penn State 6 7 7 13-33 Scranton 0 6 0 0-6 Boston Univ...